Sassak v. City of Park Ridge

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting abused arrestees’ misrepresentation claim against a former employer who concealed the abusing No. 09-1936 17 officer’s misconduct on the ground that the arrestees never learned of the misrepresentation
• “[t]he deprivation of civil rights is unlawful and the intra-corporate doctrine only applies when members of a corporation are jointly pursuing the corporation’s ‘lawful business’”
• “[V]iability of [a] state law conspiracy claim depends on the existence of independent state law claims.”
• “The deprivation of civil rights is unlawful and the intra- corporate doctrine only applies when members of a corporation are jointly pursuing the corporation’s lawful business.”
• “A failure-to-train or -discipline allegation often supports a finding of municipal liability because a policy of condoning abuse may embolden a municipal employee and facilitate further abusive acts.”

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