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CHATHAS v. SMITH

No. 87-2821.

884 F.2d 980 (1989)

Alice CHATHAS and Byron Ellis, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Norbert SMITH, Individually and as Chief of Police of Village of Evergreen Park, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 5, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Ring, Leslie J. Rosen, Ring & Associates, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Iris E. Sholder, Richard M. Daley, State's Atty., Office of the State's Atty. of Cook County, Lynn D. Dowd, D. Kendall Griffith, Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban & Fuller, Robert M. Chemers, Robert J. Franco, Pretzel & Stouffer, Michael G. Burton, Julian C. Campbell, Jr., Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban & Fuller, Chicago, Ill., John Walsh, State Bar of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., for defendants-appellees, Norbert Smith.

Before MANION and KANNE, Circuit Judges, and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.

MANION, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant Byron Ellis, a former police officer with the Village of Evergreen Park, assisted by his lawyer, plaintiff-appellant Alice Chathas, sued the Village and various responsible officials to secure increased pension benefits. On the day the trial was supposed to begin, the various defendants — deputy sheriffs, Village officers, and the lawyer representing the Village — attempted to involuntarily commit Ellis to a...

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