Genise Hart v. Michael Sheahan, Sheriff of Cook County, and Cook County

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• reversing dismissal of complaint brought by pretrial detainees because jail officials’ reasons for taking particular action could not be assessed at pleading stage
• stating general rule but finding no violation because appeal was from dismissal on pleadings
• \To present new evidence at the appeal stage is improper and in appropriate cases sanctionable.\
• “To present new evidence at the appeal stage is improper and in appropriate cases sanctionable.”
• “Punishment is not the only motive for brutal treatment. But whatever the motive is, if the brutal treatment is gratuitous, due process in its substantive sense has been violated.”
• “‘Punishment’ . . . is really just a name for unreasonably harsh treatment meted out to inmates who have not yet been convicted of any crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).