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PORTIS v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 02 C 3139.

621 F.Supp.2d 608 (2008)

Ronald PORTIS, Madric Lance, and Emmett Lynch, individually and on behalf of a class, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, a municipal corporation; and Terry G. Hillard, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

September 9, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark G. Weinberg, Attorney at Law, Michael I. Kanovitz, Loevy & Loevy, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs.

Brian Joseph Murray, June K. Ghezzi, Mark William Demonte, Morgan Reid Hirst, Jones Day, Mara Stacy Georges, Amy Renee Skaggs, Department of Law, Chicago, IL, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ROBERT W. GETTLEMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Ronald Portis, Madric Lance and Emmett Lynch brought a second amended class action complaint against defendant City of Chicago1 alleging that the City has a practice of unconstitutionally delaying release of persons arrested for non-jailable ordinance violations that are punishable by fine only. The court certified a class defined as:

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