Legal Opinion
John A. Reed, Gerald G. Kaluzny, and Rbk, Ltd. v. Village of Shorewood
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 7, 1983No. 82-2190PublishedCited by 358 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal from the dismissal on the defendants’ motion for summary judgment of a suit for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires us to consider questions under the First, Fourteenth, and Twenty-First Amendments, and also whether local legislators and judicial officers, and their municipal employer, have absolute immunity from such a suit.
The plaintiffs owned a bar in the Village of Shorewood, Illinois, and they allege that the defendants — a police officer, the police chief, and virtually the entire officialdom of the Village, as well as the Village itself —…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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- Goldberg v. KellySupreme Court of the United States · 1970
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- Pierson v. RaySupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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3Cited by358 opinions
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