United States Seventh Circuit

In a civil rights action, district court's grant of defendants' motion to dismiss on the pleadings is affirmed where plaintiffs do not state a claim that Moore's death was proximately caused by the County's acts, as the death was simply too remote a consequence of the County's actions to apply the state danger exception and hold the County responsible under federal civil rights law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/26/2009
• Decided 06/29/2009
• Published 06/29/2009

Judges

• BAUER, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, KANNE and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael J. Watton (argued), Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Krista K. Buchholz, Douglas S. Knott (argued), Leib & Katt, Grant F. Langley, Milwaukee City Attorney's Office, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendant-Appellee.