©2020 John Ryan, Attorney, Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute On January 3, 2020, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in Ybarra v. City of Chicago.[i] In Ybarra, the Court upheld the district court’s grant of summary [...]

©2020 John Ryan, Attorney, Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute LAWSUITS BEING FILED AGAINST JAIL AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES RELATED TO THE CORONA VIRUS – BE PREPARED WITH A REASONABLE RESPONSE By John Ryan, Attorney The impact of Coronavirus or COVID-19 [...]

In Day v. Wooten,[i] the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals considered whether police officers were entitled to qualified immunity where they kept a suspect handcuffed with his hands behind his back after the suspect complained of difficulty breathing. The suspect [...]