Morton v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a public entity's violation of its own rules does not constitute proof of negligence much less willful and wanton conduct
• stating the oft-reiterated proposition under Illinois law that “the violation of self-imposed rules or internal guidelines, such as General Order 81-8, does not normally impose a legal duty, let alone constitute evidence of negligence, or beyond that, wilful and wanton conduct”
• ‘We construe a special interrogatory within the context of all of the instructions to determine how it was understood by the jury.”
• “[T]he violation of self-imposed rules or internal guidelines . . . does not normally impose a legal duty, let alone constitute evidence of negligence”
• where police officers pursued vehicle of fleeing suspect and fleeing suspect struck pedestrian, police officers' failure to activate their unmarked car's siren and mars lights, which an internal police rule required, was not proof of willful and wanton conduct
• where police officers pursued vehicle of fleeing suspect and fleeing suspect struck pedestrian, police officers’ failure to activate their unmarked car’s siren and mars lights, which an internal police rule required, was not proof of willful and wanton conduct

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