Legal Opinion
Baugh v. City of Milwaukee
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided June 16, 1993No. 88-C-1230PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Chief Judge.
This civil rights case arises from a tragic fire that consumed a house at 1738 North 23rd Street in Milwaukee on September 30, 1987. Twelve people, including ten children, perished in the fire. The exact cause of the fire has never been established, although an officer from the Milwaukee Police Department’s Bomb and Arson Squad concluded that the fire originated near a couch in a first floor room and that traces of gasoline were found in that area. The estates of ten of the deceased persons and certain relatives of the deceased have brought this lawsuit under 42…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social ServicesSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Yick Wo v. HopkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
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3Cited by26 opinions
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