John Lanigan, Sr. v. Village of East Hazel Crest, Illinois, Officer Robert Wasek, Chief Ray Robertson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “to be liable for the conduct of subordinates, a supervisor must be personally involved in that conduct.”
• finding that the contact was not “so prolonged that [the defendant] could know or be deliberately indifferent”
• finding that one poke and push and a contemporaneous statement were not “so prolonged that [the defendant] could know or be deliberately indifferent to [the other defendant]’s actions”
• noting that the Monell claim in Sledd set forth “the number of excessive force complaints filed against the [CPD], the number of complaints which were investigated, and the number which the Police Department’s [OPD] believed had merit”
• finding complaint largely consisting of “boilerplate allegations” sufficient and plaintiff “should be allowed to develop a record suitable for summary judgment”
• treating a motion to dismiss under 12(b)(6) as a 12(c) motion because they can be reviewed using the same standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).