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JACKSON v. CITY OF JOLIET

Nos. 82-2833 to 82-2835.

715 F.2d 1200 (1983)

James R. JACKSON, individually and as administrator of the estates of Sandra A. Jackson, deceased, and Baby Boy Jackson, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF JOLIET, et al., Defendants-Appellants. Velva ROSS, individually and as administrator of the estate of Jerry D. Ross, Jr., deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF JOLIET, et al., Defendants-Appellants. Velva ROSS, individually and as administrator of the estate of Jerry D. Ross, Jr., deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. COUNTY OF WILL, a municipal corporation, and Robert Tezak, Will County Coroner, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 23, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas E. Sakellariou, Corp. Counsel, Thomas A. Thanas, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Joliet, Ill., for defendants-appellants, City of Joliet.

Gregory G. Lawton, Judge, Kurnik and Knight, Park Ridge, Ill., for defendants-appellants, County of Will.

Sheldon H. Nahmod, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before POSNER and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and WYATT, Senior District Judge.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

No problem so perplexes the federal courts today as determining the outer bounds of section 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the ubiquitous tort remedy for deprivations of rights secured by federal law (primarily the Fourteenth Amendment) by persons acting under color of state law. In the present cases, which are before us on interlocutory appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) from denial of the defendants' motions to...

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