Legal Opinion
Thomas v. City of Peoria
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 3, 2009No. 08-2918PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Peoria and a lawyer in the City counsel’s office named Sonni Williams, complaining that he had been arrested in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights (made applicable to state action by interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment) and also deprived of his liberty without due process of law. He added state law claims for false arrest and abuse of process. The district judge dismissed the federal claims for failure to state a claim and having done so refused to certify a class of persons arrested in…
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