• Reader James Huff passes along this (Bloomington) Pantagraph story from last October of a lawsuit in Illinois over a police shooting of a driver after a car chase. The driver was drunk and had multiple drug convictions for which he was on probation at the time of the incident. The officer said he shot the driver when the driver tried to run him down. Of course, it’s Not About The Money:
  

  Dorris said Ruch’s parents, Jack and Margery Ruch, are more interested in details of the incident becoming public than collecting a financial settlement.

  “The thing the Ruch family wants the most is to search for the truth,” Dorris said. “If we have to try this case to get that, then it’ll be tried.”

  That didn’t stop them from requesting that the details of the settlement remain private, though. They later changed their mind after the local paper sued; they settled for $750,000.

• Via Howard Bashman: on Monday, the Sixth Circuit reversed a lower court opinion finding the police liable when a drunk driver killed another driver. The court agreed that (treating the victim’s allegations as true) the police were incompetent, but incompetence does not create a violation of constitutional rights. (Whatever happened to “Don’t make a federal case out of it?”) The opinion is here (PDF).

Filed under: Illinois, not about the money