John Auriemma v. Fred Rice, and City of Chicago

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1992-02-28

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RIPPLE, Circuit Judge, concurring. I concur in the judgment of the court. The complexities of civil rights litigation quite naturally produce a yearning for a concise definition or a bright-line rule with respect to the identity of a municipal policymaker. Today, however, local governmental structures take many shapes, and the demands of contemporary municipal governance probably will expand rather than cont…

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