Legal Opinion
Easter House, an Illinois, Not-For-Profit Corporation v. Thomas Felder, Florence McGuire and Joan Satoloe
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 8, 1988No. 86-2164PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
Defendants in this section 1983 action, employees of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (“DCFS”), appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict. The jury found that in two separate instances these employees acted under color of state law to deprive Easter House, a Chicago-based adoption agency, of property without due process of law. On the first count, the jury found that during late 1974 and early 1975 the DCFS employees conspired with Millicent Smith, a former Easter House employee, to deprive Easter House of its operating license and to…
2Cases cited81 opinions
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3Cited by22 opinions
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