WARREN v. SWANSON

No. 97 C 8929.

69 F.Supp.2d 1047 (1999)

Valeria WARREN, Plaintiff, v. J. SWANSON, Chicago Police Department Star No. 17115, J. Cooper, Chicago Police Department Star No. 15615, S. Zaehringer, Chicago Police Department Star No. 15644, D. Sakurai, Chicago Police Department Star No. 6573, and W. Clucas, Chicago Police Department Star No. 19890, Defendants.

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

October 4, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Carl Thomas, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, for Valeria Warren, plaintiff.

Joseph M. Polick, Josh Michael Engquist, City of Chicago, Department of Law, Chicago, IL, for D. Sakurai, W. Clucas, J. Swanson, J. Cooper, defendants.

Brian L. Crowe, Shefsky, Froelich & Devine, Ltd., Chicago, IL, Irma Valdez, City of Chicago, Law Department Corporation Counsel, Chicago, IL, Michael W. Early, Thomas R. Samson, David Mitchell Zinder, City of Chicago, Department of Law, Chicago, IL, for City of Chicago, S. Zaehringer, defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

GETTLEMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiff Valeria Warren was badly burned after a cigarette lighter she had in a coat pocket ignited while she was being processed in a Chicago police station after her arrest for an alleged vehicular misdemeanor. She has brought a three count second amended complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against defendant Chicago Police Officers J. Swanson, J. Cooper, D. Sakurai, and W. Clucas...

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