United States Seventh Circuit

Judgment as a matter of law for police officer defendants in a civil rights action alleging illegal detention and search by police officers is affirmed where no reasonable jury could find that defendants lacked probable cause to stop plaintiff or that consent to a search of plaintiff's truck and home was legally coerced.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/06/2006
• Published 01/06/2006

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, EVANS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edmund B. Moran, Jr. (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel C. Shapiro, Moss & Bloomberg, Bolingbrook, IL, Laura L. Scarry (argued), Myers, Miller, Standa & Krauskopf, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.