Charles M. McDonald v. Village of Winnetka, Ronald Colpaert, Scott Smith and Mitchell S. Kushner

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2004-06-17

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CUDAHY, Circuit Judge. This case raises the question: what could be worse than having most of your home burn down in a fire? The answer, of course, is having the rest of it burn down a couple of days later in a second fire. What would make the situation dramatically worse, however, is if the fire department determined that the second fire was intentionally set (possibly by you)…

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