Legal Opinion
Milan Knox v. Cook County Sheriff's Police Department and Robert Neapolitan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 28, 1988No. 88-1204PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiff-appellant, Milan Knox, appeals the dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim, alleging that the district court should not have held him to his own erroneous concession that his claim was time-barred by the statute of limitations. For the reasons stated below, we reverse and remand to the district court.
I
On October 2, 1987, Knox filed a complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Cook County Sheriff’s Police Department and Investigator Robert Neapolitan. The complaint alleged defendants acquired a search warrant on August 30, 1982 based on hearsay evidence which lacked independent…
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