Legal Opinion

Tully v. Rush County Prosecutor Barada

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided March 17, 2010No. 09-3237PublishedCited by 47 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BAUER, Circuit Judge.

Michael Tully sued Paul Barada and Catherine Custer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, asserting that they violated his rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments by summoning him into court and initiating juvenile proceedings against him without probable cause. The district court dismissed Tully’s case for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Wayne Elwell was in his home, located about a football field’s length from a county-road bridge in Rush County, Indiana, when he observed that near the bridge were the headlights of a vehicle…

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