Legal Opinion
Albright v. Oliver
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 14, 1992No. 91-3746PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The district judge granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint in this constitutional tort case (brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983) for failure to state a claim, so we take the facts to be as alleged in the complaint, without of course vouching for their truth. The plaintiff is Kevin Albright. The defendants are Roger Oliver, an experienced police detective employed by the City of Macomb, Illinois, the home of Western Illinois University; and the City itself. In March 1987 Oliver hired a cocaine addict, Veda Moore, as an informant. She had come to him seeking…
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