Legal Opinion
Gates v. Towery
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided June 20, 2006No. 04-C-2155PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
CASTILLO, District Judge.
Plaintiffs Elton Gates and Luster Nelson (together “Plaintiffs”) have brought a class action suit against the City of Chicago (“the City”) and Superintendent of Police Philip Cline (together, “the City Defendants”), as well as police officers B. Towery and P. Galiardo (collectively “Defendants”). Plaintiffs allege that Defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment due process rights and Illinois law by propagating a policy whereby police officers seize money found in the vicinity of a person placed under arrest, issue an inventory receipt…
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