United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit under 42 U.S.C. sections 1983 and 1985 alleging that police officers conspired to deny plaintiff's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where plaintiff failed to establish a deprivation of a liberty interest in his assertion that an officer's statements caused pressure for him to leave a university and change career paths, and where plaintiff's protectable right to familial associations was not violated by the length of a custody hearing.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/05/2007
• Decided 01/15/2008
• Published 01/15/2008

Judges

• EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EVANS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert J. Gingras (argued), Paul A. Kinne, Gingras, Cates & Luebke, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michele M. Ford (argued), Crivello, Carlson & Mentkowski, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants-Appellees, John Kindlarski and John Niebuhr., Michael R. Fox (argued), Monona, WI, for Defendants-Appellees, Ronald DeBruyne, Sr., Judith DeBruyne and Kristen DeBruyne.