Date: 10-24-2009

Case Style: Jacqueline Fegan v. Robert Reid, Dennis Doherty, James Young and Michael Drew

Case Number: 1:06-cv-06767

Judge: Joan Lefkow

Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Cook County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: Tomas Petkus, Tobin, Petkus & Munoz, L.L.C., Chicago, Illinois

Defendant's Attorney: Kevin Boyle and Alison Blair Crane, Swanson, Martin & Bell, Chicago, Illinois and McRay Judge, II, Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates, Chicago, Illinois for Robert Reid, Dennis Doherty, James Young and Michael Drew

Diane S. Cohen and J Ernest Mincy, III, City of Chicago, Legal Department, Chicago, Illinois and Thomas More Leinenweber and James Vincent Daffada, Leinenweber Barone & Daffada LLC, Wilmette, Illinois for the City of Chicago

Description: Jacqueline Fegan sued Robert Reid, Dennis Doherty, James Young, Michael Drew and City of Chicago on a civil rights violation theory, 42 U.S.C. 1983, claiming that defendants conspired to violate her civil rights by arresting during a dispute over a parking ticket. While on her normal patrol, Fegan had come upon the four officers in a dispute with a traffic aide. She testified that Officer Robert Reid became furious when she refused to take care of a parking ticket he had received on his personal vehicle when he responded to a police call.

Defendants claimed that Fegan who threw her clout around and that she was arrested when she stepped into heavy traffic along the Magnificent Mile.

Outcome: Plaintiff's verdict for $1.25 million for emotional distress and more than $300,000 for medical treatment and lost wages.

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