Legal Opinion
Estate of Sims Ex Rel. Sims v. County of Bureau
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 19, 2007No. 01-2884PublishedCited by 245 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
In 1999 Thetis M. Sims suffered a fatal heart attack in her home in Tiskilwa, Illinois. The only person present at the time was Bureau County Sheriff Greg Johnson, whose alleged campaign fraud was the subject of a story Ms. Sims was investigating for the local newspaper. Her estate, her husband, and her daughter brought a federal civil rights suit against Johnson in his individual and official capacities, 2 Bureau County, and the Bureau County Sheriffs Department, alleging that Johnson’s actions led to Sims’s death. The district court granted the defendants’ motions to…
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