The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s decision to throw out a case against the City of Chicago and eight of its police officers.
Plaintiff Mark Geinosky alleges that he was harassed by police officers who issued him 24 bogus tickets. The Appeals Court found that the plaintiff had sufficiently argued he was singled out by the various officers. The opinion concluded that the City did not provide a reasonable explanation for the officer’s behavior and “the pattern adds up to deliberate and unjustified official harassment that is actionable under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
The case is now headed back to the District Court.
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