Chapman v. Stricker

ORDER

Lamar Chapman III filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that several employees of the village of Matteson, Illinois, violated his constitutional rights by thwarting him from distributing a political flyer. Chapman initially received a default against two defendants who had not been properly served, but the district court later set it aside and eventually dismissed the *79complaint in its entirety for failure to state a claim. We vacate the dismissal and remand.

We assume for purposes of our review that the following facts as alleged in Chapman’s complaint are true. In April 2001 Mark…