Legal Opinion
Cruz v. Stasinopoulos
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided February 11, 1994No. 93 C 6286PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ZAGEL, District Judge.
Lester Rumowski and Nicholas Stasinopoulos are police officers who, it is alleged, falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted Bruce Cruz as well as using excessive force against him. Three counts allege these acts as violation of federal civil rights laws and three counts allege them again as violations of state law. The defendants will answer all but one count. They ask dismissal of the federal law claim of malicious prosecution.
It is sometimes difficult to understand why the malicious prosecution issue is debated at all in cases like this.…
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- Thomas Mahoney v. Russell KeseryCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1992
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