PAYNE v. CITY OF LaSALLE

No. 85 C 4116.

610 F.Supp. 606 (1985)

Kenneth V. PAYNE, Jr., Plaintiff, v. CITY OF LaSALLE, et al., Defendants.

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

May 15, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. Diedrich, DeKalb, Ill., for plaintiff.

Donald A. Gift and T. Donald Henson, LaSalle, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, District Judge.

Kenneth Payne, Jr. ("Payne") has filed an all-too-familiar1 type of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ("Section 1983") Complaint, charging gratuitous brutality on the part of individual police officers and a general and continuing failure on the part of their municipal employer (here the City of LaSalle, "LaSalle," rather than the most frequently encountered City of Chicago) to have controlled...

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