Legal Opinion

Taylor v. Castaneda

District Court, N.D. Illinois

Decided June 29, 1990No. 87 C 9765Published

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

ALESIA, District Judge.

In October, 1987, plaintiff, Julia Taylor, acting as special administrator of the estate of Johnny Taylor (“Taylor”), filed this two-count action against Chicago police officers Efren Castaneda and Pamela Burmistrz and the City of Chicago (“City”). Count I, the allegations of which are not at issue here, is directed against the two individual officers. In Count I, plaintiff alleges that officers Castaneda and Burmistrz shot Taylor while he was running away, that their use of deadly force was unnecessary, and that their use of deadly force constituted an…

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