Suit was filed against the City of Geneva and others by the estate of a deceased Army veteran. He and two young teens were fishing downstream of the Geneva Dam and when the boys got bored, they decided to go for a swim. The two were caught in the “boil” of the dam and the veteran drowned while saving the …
View Outdoor v. Town of Schererville
Bill Kurnik received summary judgment in January, 2015, on behalf of the Town of Schererville in a case pending in the Hammond Division of the Northern District of Indiana. The plaintiff, an owner and operator of billboards, alleged that an amendment to the Town ordinance prohibiting billboards throughout the Village violated its First Amendment rights. Bill argued that the ordinance …
Disability Discrimination
We have been retained to respond to a disability discrimination claim made against a west suburban DuPage municipality under the ADA. The claimant, a disabled attorney, asserts that the Village violated the Act by failing to remove deposits of snow in sidewalk cur cuts caused by snow plowing the streets. No reported decision addresses whether the ADA imposes that duty …
Kresich v. City of Lake Station
In March, 2015, Amanda Zdarsky and Bill Kurnik obtained a defense verdict in an excessive force claim filed against Lake Station police officers in the Hammond Division of the Northern District of Indiana. The plaintiff was selling Methadone and an undercover buy was set up in a local Burger King parking lot. A flash-bang device was used to distract the …