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WOURMS v. FIELDS

No. 13-1178.

742 F.3d 756 (2014)

Lawrence WOURMS, as personal representative of Estate of Dane Wourms, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Scott FIELDS and City of Evansville, Wisconsin, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 5, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeff Scott Olson , Attorney, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Charles H. Bohl , Attorney, Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C., Milwaukee, WI, Erin Marie Keesecker , Attorney, Whyte, Hirschboeck & Dudek S.C., Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Sixteen-year-old Dane Wourms was killed when, in a high-speed pursuit in April 2007 by an unmarked police car that began shortly after 1 a.m., his car veered off the road and crashed. The personal representative of Wourms's estate (his father) brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the officer driving the police car. The additional defendant, the officer's employer, is joined only as a potential indemnitor should the officer be...

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