Legal Opinion
Payton v. Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided January 27, 2000No. 97 C 5558PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
CASTILLO, District Judge.
The district court1 dismissed William Payton’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims on the defendants’2 12(b)(6) motion because, the court held, Payton failed to meet a heightened pleading standard. The Seventh Circuit reversed, stating that no heightened pleading requirement exists. Payton v. Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Med. Center, 184 F.3d 623, 627 (7th Cir.1999). The defendants have filed a motion for summary judgment, which we grant in part and deny in part. In analyzing the defendants’ motion, we will assume the reader of this opinion is familiar…
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- Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Illinois v. WardlowSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Hankins v. Maryland Casualty Co./Zurich American Insurance Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 2012
- Payton v. RUSH-PRESBYTERIAN-ST. LUKE'S MED. CENTERDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 2000