BALCERZAK v. CITY OF MILWAUKEE

No. CIV. A. 95-C-749.

980 F.Supp. 983 (1997)

John A. BALCERZAK and Joseph T. Gabrish, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF MILWAUKEE, Milwaukee Police Department, Chief of Police Philip Arreola, Board of Fire and Police Commissioners of the City of Milwaukee, M. Nicol Padway, Kathleen Harrell-Patterson, Robert Harris, Phoebe Weaver-Williams, Daniel A. Blinka, Grant F. Langley, Martin Joseph Donald, and Jan A. Smokowicz, individually and in their official capacities, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Wisconsin.

October 10, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Fuchs, Fuchs, Finn, Snow & O'Connell, Wauwatosa, WI, for Plaintiffs.

Rudolph M. Konrad, Deputy City Attorney, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants.


DECISION AND ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS

REYNOLDS, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

This case arises from one of the darker periods of Wisconsin's history, the series of brutal murders committed by Jeffery Dahmer. The plaintiffs, John A. Balcerzak ("Balcerzak") and Joseph A. Gabrish ("Gabrish") were police officers subjected to discipline by the Milwaukee Police Department ("MPD") for their handling of...

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