Jimmy Doe v. Teamsters Local 700

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

This suit began in 1999, when a group of detainees at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, which houses juvenile suspects awaiting trial, contended that some personnel at the Center violated the federal Constitution by abusing their charges. (Plaintiffs’ status as juveniles justifies the anonymity in the case title.) Eight years into the suit, which has been certified as a class action (so the fact that the representative plaintiffs are no longer at the Center does not make the case moot), the district court appointed Earl Dunlap as the Center’s…