Legal Opinion
Wragg v. Village of Thornton
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 7, 2010No. 08-3766PublishedCited by 248 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
The Village of Thornton’s fire chief John Klaczak molested Stephen Wragg, Jr., a sixteen-year-old in the Village’s fire cadet program. Wragg sued the Village under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, asserting that the Village violated his substantive due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by deliberately retaining Klaczak as fire chief despite knowledge of his prior improprieties with other minors. The district court granted summary judgment to the Village. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
We begin our review of the district court’s grant of summary judgment by reciting the factual…
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