Portis v. City of Chicago

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

GETTLEMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, Ronald Portis, Mardric E. Lance, and Emmett Lynch brought a class action against Defendants City of Chicago, Terry Hillard, Joseph Griffin, John Risley, Francis Kehoe, Evert L. Johnson and Robert Johnson, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that plaintiffs were unlawfully detained for prolonged periods of time after completion of all administrative steps incident to their arrests for non-custodial ordinance violations. The court granted defendant’s motion to dismiss Count I of plaintiffs’ second amended complaint for lack of…