Pennie v. City Of Rockford

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS WESTERN DIVISION Roger Pennie, Plaintiff, Case No. 3:19-cv-50120 v. Honorable Iain D. Johnston City of Rockford, Illinois, and Timothy Campbell, Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER One of the first rules of writing is to know the audience. When courts enter orders, they can be writing for many different audiences: the parties, the attorneys, other courts, future courts and litigants, the public at large, governmental bodies, or maybe all of these. This opinion is written for a larger audience. Considerable…