7th Circuit

Sheriff violated Equal Protection Clause when, based on race (African American) of defendants, in place of court-ordered release on specific terms, he substituted prolonged detentions and significant restraints on pretrial release of his own devising, causing jailing of group of plaintiffs from three to fourteen days; evidence that more than four in five of the eighty or so people wrongfully detained were Black was sufficient at pleading stage to believe sheriff could be liable for intentional discrimination.

Permitting plaintiff to go forward with class-of-one equal protection claim where officer repeatedly interfered with plaintiff’s ability to move his residence and register as sex offender and discrimination was intentional and without any rational basis.

Merely asking a person for identification does not constitute a seizure; that officers told persons who furnished ID that they could not leave until and unless their name checks were clear raised an issue of fact about whether a reasonable person would have felt free to leave; where officers observed plaintiffs violating an aggressive panhandling ordinance, it did not unreasonably prolong a Terry stop to run a brief warrant check.

Bare nolle prosequi order is insufficient to establish proceedings terminated in plaintiff’s favor.

Officer not liable for shooting where he could not see suspect’s hands but had seen black cylindrical object pressed against his forearm.