Legal Opinion
Hanes v. Zurick
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 18, 2009No. 09-1043PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Stephen Hanes sued the Village of Grayslake, Illinois, and eleven officers of its police department, alleging that the officers denied him' — and only him — equal protection of the law, solely for reasons of personal animus. Relying on Hilton v. City of Wheeling, 209 F.3d 1005 (7th Cir.2000), the district court denied the officers’ motion to dismiss, which sought dismissal both on the basis of qualified immunity and for failure to state a claim. Under Hilton, a plaintiff states such a claim by alleging that “the police decided to withdraw all protection ... out of sheer…
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