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BELBACHIR v. COUNTY OF McHENRY

No. 13-1002.

726 F.3d 975 (2013)

Abdelkader Rachid BELBACHIR, administrator of the estate of Hassiba Belbachir, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF McHENRY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 12, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janine L. Hoft (argued), Attorney, Janis M. Susler (argued), Attorney, People's Law Office, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

George J. Casson (argued), Attorney, O'Halloran, Kosoff, Geitner & Cook, LLC, Northbrook, IL, Catherine Basque Weiler , Attorney, Arthur J. Reliford, Jr. , Attorney, Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP, Chicago, IL, Monica Mallory , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Rockford, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before POSNER, ROVNER, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Hassiba Belbachir committed suicide in McHenry County Jail, a local Illinois jail in which she was confined at the request of federal authorities pending a removal hearing. An Algerian citizen, aged 27, she had entered the United States as a visitor in November 2004. She overstayed and in February of the following year flew from Chicago to England (we don't know why), where the immigration authorities detained her for about a week and then returned...

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