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WRAGG v. VILLAGE OF THORNTON

No. 08-3766.

604 F.3d 464 (2010)

Stephen J. WRAGG, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VILLAGE OF THORNTON, a municipal corporation, John Klaczak, individually and as a agent of Village of Thornton, and Board of Fire and Police Commissioners of The Village of Thornton, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 7, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Farris M. Alkaraki (argued), Leahy & Hoste, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Vincent C. Cipolla, William W. Kurnik (argued), Knight, Hoppe, Kurnik & Knight, Rosemont, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and BAUER and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

BAUER, Circuit Judge.

The Village of Thornton's fire chief John Klaczak molested Stephen Wragg, Jr., a sixteen-year-old in the Village's fire cadet program. Wragg sued the Village under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, asserting that the Village violated his substantive due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by deliberately retaining Klaczak as fire chief despite knowledge of his prior improprieties with other minors. The...

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