Schneider v. County of Will

ORDER

Michael Schneider spent 20 days in jail after a judge in Will County, Illinois, held him in criminal contempt. In this lawsuit he claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that the county sheriff and the jail warden should have released him after 10 days and, by holding him longer, violated the Eighth Amendment. Schneider also claims under Illinois law that the defendants intentionally caused him emotional distress by assigning him to a poorly ventilated cell with an ill and talkative child molester. Schneider anticipates that Will County will indemnify the sheriff and warden, so the county is named…