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SALAZAR v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 89-3551.

940 F.2d 233 (1991)

Arturo SALAZAR, as Administrator of the Estate of Alejandro Salazar, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, a municipal corporation; Walter Wells, Dennis Mangerich and Leo Marks, Police Officers of the City of Chicago, Michael Nowacki and Edward Cinkues, Paramedics of the Chicago Fire Department, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 7, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald T. Bertucci, Thomas A. Corfman, Andrew V. DePaul, argued, Berger & DePaul, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Mardell Nereim, argued, Terence J. Moran, Kelly R. Welsh, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Office of the Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before WOOD, Jr., and MANION, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

MANION, Circuit Judge.

In the early morning hours of November 27, 1982, Alejandro Salazar made a fatal decision to drive his car after drinking excessively. At around 4:30 a.m., Salazar drove head-on into a parking meter, and then into the front wall of a Chicago restaurant. Salazar did not die instantly; rather, he died at around noon to 1:00 p.m. that day, several hours after police had taken him to the 19th District police station in Chicago and booked him for...

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