Riley v. Fairfield

The defendants, Kankakee County sheriff’s police officers Raymond Fairfield and John Ruch, arrested the plaintiff, Elaine Riley, in reliance on a Du Page County arrest warrant. The plaintiff brought the instant suit for Federal statutory and Illinois common law damages based on her arrest and subsequent imprisonment. She brings this appeal from the court’s order of summary judgment for the officers.

At approximately 10 p.m. on December 13, 1985, the officers stopped the plaintiff’s vehicle, as one headlight was not lit. In a routine computer check of the plaintiff’s driver’s license, Officer…