Legal Opinion
Julian J. Miller v. Albert Gonzalez
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 5, 2014No. 11-2906, 12-2950PublishedCited by 901 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Julian Miller began the evening of October 24, 2003 at his mother’s wedding reception, and ended it in the back of a police cruiser with a broken jaw. Miller blamed two police officers from the Ke-nosha, Wisconsin police department for intentionally breaking his jaw and sued them under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violating his civil rights by using excessive force in effectuating his arrest. The district court granted the police officers’ motions for summary judgment and Miller appeals.
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Before entering his mother’s 9:00 p.m. wedding reception, Miller and a friend smoked…
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