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NEWMAN v. VILLAGE OF HINSDALE

No. 84 C 2616.

592 F.Supp. 1307 (1984)

Edward P. NEWMAN, Plaintiff, v. VILLAGE OF HINSDALE, Aaron Mitton, sued individually and in his official capacity as Village of Hinsdale police officer, and Kenneth Felbinger, sued individually and in his official capacity as Chief of Police of the Hinsdale Police Department, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

September 25, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Belofsky, John O. Demaret & Assoc., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Peter M. Rosenthal, Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Murphy & Cope, P.C., Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KOCORAS, District Judge.

In a paroxysm of hyperbole, the plaintiff has described this as a case which "shocks the conscience [and] is fundamentally offensive to civilized society." Complaint ¶¶ 17, 23. He is right in a very limited sense, but not at all in the way he thinks.

It can be said with a substantial degree of certainty that when Representative James Madison, who was later to become the fourth president of the...

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