United States Seventh Circuit

A police informant, with personal experience in drug transactions and knowledge of the inherent dangers, acting on his own volition rather than because of coercion, cannot state a claim under the "state-created danger exception" of DeShaney v. Winnebago County Dep't of Soc. Servs., 489 U.S. 189 (1989).

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/18/2001
• Decided 08/17/2001
• Published 08/17/2001

Judges

• HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge., Before WOOD, Jr., DIANE P. WOOD, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mary A. Pohl (argued), Mary Ann Pohl & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., A. Benjamin Goldgar (argued), Office of Atty. General Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.