NICHOLS v. LAYMON

No. 77 C 341.

506 F.Supp. 267 (1980)

William NICHOLS, Plaintiff, v. Richard S. LAYMON, Guardianship Administrator, Department of Children and Family Services; Albert Neely, Director of the Children's Division of Cook County Department of Public Aid; Robert Bussell, M.D., Employed by the Juvenile Court of Cook County; Eleanor Doyle, Employed by Department of Children and Family Services; Sarah Mauer, Employed by the Division of Cook County Department of Public Aid; Frank Dettenbach, Employee of the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities; Enrich Visioso, M.D., Employee of Department of Children and Family Services; Victor Platt, Clinical Director, Elgin Mental Health Center; Dr. Leonard Horecker, Clinical Director, Chester Mental Health Center; Vernon Uffelman, Director, Chester Mental Health Center; David Clark, Employee of the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities; James Lampros, Caseworker, Department of Children and Family Services; Robert Mackie, Superintendent, Elgin Mental Health Center; County of Cook, A Body Politic and Corporate, Defendants.

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

December 5, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick T. Murphy, Goldberg & Murphy, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Karen R. Goodman, Ill. Dept. of Children & Family Services, John A. Dienner, III, Asst. State's Atty., Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CROWLEY, District Judge.

This is an action for damages resulting from the alleged violations of plaintiff's First, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Jurisdiction is asserted under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1343.

The facts are fully set forth in Judge Will's Memorandum Opinion of May 5, 1978. Briefly, the complaint alleges that when plaintiff became a ward of the State of...

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