Ruehman v. Village of Palos Park

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HART, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in this case claimed that they were named in arrest warrants that have been quashed or recalled but are still listed as active on municipal and state computer data banks. The crux of plaintiffs’ federal claims are that plaintiffs’ Fourth Amendment 1 or due process rights have been violated in that defendants have failed to adequately maintain the computer networks so as to prevent the arrest and detention of persons on warrants that are no longer valid. Plaintiffs originally sought to represent a class and requested both damages and…