Backes v. VILLAGE OF PEORIA HEIGHTS, ILL.

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• concluding that, while police chief might have been liable if he had approved a raid plan that involved excessive force, he had instead deferred to an outside tactical team over which he had no authority
• concluding that, while police chief might have been liable if he had approved a raid plan that involved excessive force, he had instead deferred to an outside tactical team over which he had no authority
• affirming summary judgment in favor of an officer who served only as a “mere consultant” when other officers elected to use pepper balls to remove an individual from his car
• there is a \well-established principle of law that a defendant must have been 'personally responsible' for the deprivation of the right at the root of a § 1983 claim for that claim to succeed.\
• “Battery is defined under Illinois law as follows: ‘A person commits battery if he or she knowingly without legal justification by any means (1) causes bodily harm to an individual or (2) makes physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with an individual.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).