Legal Opinion
Easter House, an Illinois, Not-For-Profit Corporation v. Thomas Felder, Florence McGuire and Joan Satoloe
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 4, 1989No. 86-2164PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
A jury found that in two separate instances the appellants, employees of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, acted under color of state law to deprive Easter House, a Chicago-based adoption agency, of property without due process of law. The district court denied the appellants’ post-trial motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial. We reverse and hold that section 1983 is not available to Easter House in the first instance of alleged misconduct because adequate state law remedies provide all of the process which was due and…
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