Neither of the off-duty officers involved in the shooting or the dispute that preceded it were in full uniform, as police have claimed. By: Maya Dukmasova Chicago Reader Sixteen months ago off-duty Chicago police officer Joseph Treacy and police sergeant Thomas Derouin shot ...
By: Hannah Leone Chicago Tribune Kane County is paying $50,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by three people in a car improperly detained by a Kane County sergeant who’s running for sheriff. An Illinois appeals court ruled in October that Kane County Sgt. Ronald ...
by: Megan Jones The Chicago Tribune Yorkville woman and her 45-year-old son are suing the city of Yorkville and two of its police department employees after an officer urged the man who was choking himself to “finish yourself off.” The lawsuit was […]
by: Patricia Manson Chicago Daily Law Bulletin January 16, 2019 A man who alleges Chicago police denied his repeated requests for medical care after he was arrested in a “road rage” incident got the go-ahead to pursue a Fourth Amendment claim. In a written ...
On November 5th, 2016, in the early afternoon, Joshua Beal, his girl-friend Ashley Phifer, and other members of a funeral procession were leaving a funeral for Mr. Beal’s cousin at a cemetery in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood to visit an extremely ill relative at a hospital, when a ...
$180,000 settlement for police brutality By: Nicholas Alajakis Lake County News-Sun August 16, 2007 A former Waukegan man has settled an excessive force lawsuit against city police officers. The city of Waukegan agreed to pay Roy Castillo $180,000 last week, stemming from an April ...
Jury Award Paralyzed Man $28 Million – Most ever in Chicago Cop Case October 26, 1999 By: Matt O’Connor and Lola Smallwood Chicago Tribune With surprising swiftness, a federal jury on Monday awarded $28 million to the family of a man who suffered a paralyzing injury in an alleged ...
Family Abused by Police Settle for $700,000 By: Anthony Ponce and Ally Clark February 4, 2012 The city of Chicago has agreed to pay $700,000 to settle a 2006 lawsuit filed by a South Side family alleging abuse and extortion from rouge police officers. “We were constantly in fear. Every ...
Rolling Meadows, police sued over apartment barricades By: Kristen Kridel Chicago Tribune June 17, 2008 The owners of a Rolling Meadows apartment complex filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday charging that their civil rights are being violated by a police decision to block off most ...
By Jordyn Reiland Chicago Daily Law Bulletin A woman who claimed Zion police officers used excessive force during a 2014 arrest was denied a fair trial when she was not allowed to show evidence of a past police encounter, a federal appeals panel ruled. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
