Cain v. City of Chicago

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ASPEN, District Judge:

Plaintiff Lee Cain 1 (“Cain”) brought this action individually, as the administrator of decedent Michael Cain’s (“the decedent”) estate and on behalf of the decedent’s next of kin under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983 and 1985. There are also several pendent state law causes of action. The defendants in this case are the City of Chicago (“the City”), Chicago Police Superintendent Fred Rice (“Rice”), Chicago police officers Gerald Dahlberg (“Dahlberg”), Robert Hacker (“Hacker”) and Dorothy Stefan (“Stefan”) and “John Doe” and other unknown Chicago…