United States Seventh Circuit

In plaintiffs' 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against the Board of Education of the City of Chicago and a school principal, claiming the principal violated their Fourth Amendment rights by swearing to false complaints of disorderly conduct and causing false arrests, arising from a physical altercation between the plaintiffs and a parent of a student at the school, summary judgment in favor of the defendants is affirmed where: 1) undisputed facts show that the principal had probable cause to sign criminal complaints for disorderly conduct against the plaintiffs; 2) the fact that the principal had probable cause to sign the criminal complaints for the plaintiffs' arrest means that defendants are also entitled to summary judgment on the supplemental state-law claims as well; and 3) plaintiffs have offered no evidence supporting the first element of their claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

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• Decided 03/19/2010
• Published 03/19/2010

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• United States Seventh Circuit

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