United States Court of Appeals

For the Seventh Circuit

Chicago, Illinois 60604

November 27, 2012

Before

JOEL M. FLAUM, Circuit Judge

TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge

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JOHN DANIEL TINDER, Circuit Judge

Nos. 10-1974 & 10-2064

ANDY THAYER, et al.,

Plaintiffs-Appellants,

v.

RALPH CHICZEWSKI, et al.,

Defendants-Appellees.

Appeals from the United States

District Court for the

Northern District of Illinois,

Eastern Division.

Nos. 1:07-cv-01290 & 1:07-cv-1406

John W. Darrah,

Judge.

O R D E R

We issued our decision in this case on September 18, 2012, affirming the district court’s

entry of summary judgment in favor of the defendants on Bradford Lyttle’s false arrest and

malicious prosecution claims, on Lyttle’s and Andy Thayer’s First Amendment retaliation

claims, and on Thayer’s class-of-one equal protection claim. We also dismissed Lyttle’s facial

challenge to subsection (d) of Chicago’s disorderly conduct ordinance, Chicago Municipal

Code, Ill. § 8-4-010(d), holding that the claim was mooted by our recent opinion in Bell v.

Keating, 697 F.3d 445 (7th Cir. 2012), which partially invalidated subsection (d) on overbreadth

Circuit Judge Evans died on August 10, 2011, and did not participate in the

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decision of the Petition for Rehearing, which is being resolved by a quorum of the panel

under 28 U.S.C. § 46(d).
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and vagueness grounds. See Thayer v. Chiczewski, 697 F.3d 514 (7th Cir. 2012). However, Lyttle

filed a petition for panel rehearing, contending that by affirming the district court’s judgment

in its entirety, we inadvertently disposed of his claim against the City of Chicago for damages

for enforcement of Chicago Municipal Code, Ill. § 8-4-010(d) as an unconstitutional policy. See

Monell v. Dep’t of Soc. Servs., 436 U.S. 658, 690 (1978). He asks that we remand to the district

court for entry of judgment in his favor on his Monell claim and a trial limited to damages.

Conceding that municipal corporations, like the City, are not entitled to qualified immunity,

the defendants agree that we should address Lyttle’s Monell claim but they maintain that the

request for a trial on damages is premature. Lyttle has moved for leave to file a reply in

support of his petition for rehearing; that motion is granted.

Bell did not invalidate subsection (d) “to the extent that it legitimizes dispersal when three or

more people are engaged in disorderly conduct likely to cause ‘substantial harm,’” 697 F.3d at

463–64, and we did not decide whetherthe officers had probable cause to arrest Lyttle, Thayer, 697

F.3d at 527 (finding “arguable probable cause to order dispersal and arrest Lyttle”). Thus, we

overlooked Lyttle’s Monell claim against the City and it will need to be addressed in the first

instance in the district court. However, a trial on damages only would be premature; the question

of liability must be considered and, as the City points out in its response to the petition for

rehearing, if the officers had probable cause to arrest Lyttle for a violation of the valid portion of

subsection (d), Lyttle suffered no constitutional violation. Accordingly, the petition for panel

rehearing is granted and our slip opinion issued September 18, 2012, is amended as follows:

M The second sentence of the first paragraph of the opinion is amended to read: “The

plaintiffs brought claims against both the City under Monell v. Department of Social Services

and the arresting officers under Section 1983 for First Amendment retaliation, Fourth

Amendment false arrest, Fourteenth Amendment class-of-one equal protection, and state

law malicious prosecution.”

M The last sentence of the first paragraph of the opinion is amended to read: “The district

court granted summary judgment and we affirm in part on the basis of qualified 

immunity.”

M The fourth sentence of the second paragraph of the opinion is amended to read: “We

affirm the grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant officers; we do so, 

however, on the basis of qualified immunity.”

M The last sentence of the second paragraph of the opinion is omitted and a new sentence

is added in its place, which reads: “However, Lyttle also asserts a claim that the City

violated his constitutional rights by the enforcement of subsection (d), that is, as a

policy. See Monell v. Dep’t of Soc. Servs., 436 U.S. 658, 690 (1978). A remand will be
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required for resolution of that claim only.”

M On page 24, the last sentence of the first paragraph is amended to read: “Accordingly, 

we affirm the district court’s entry of summary judgment in favor of the defendant 

officers on Lyttle’s false arrest and malicious prosecution claims. But Lyttle’s Monell

claim against the City, which is not entitled to qualified immunity, remains. See Owen v. 

City of Independence, 445 U.S. 622, 638 (1980).”

M On page 36 immediately preceding the Conclusion section, the following paragraph is 

inserted:

 But the mootness of the facial challenge to subsection (d) does not dispose of Lyttle’s

Monell claim against the City. Although Bell invalidated a portion of the disorderly

conduct ordinance, it left the rest untouched, and the City asserts that there was

probable cause for the arrest of Lyttle under the valid portion of the ordinance. In

finding the ordinance as a whole to be constitutional, the district court did not need to

reach this question. Therefore, Lyttle’s Monell claim will be remanded for further

proceedings.

M On page 36, the Conclusion section is amended to read:

 We AFFIRM the district court’s entry of summary judgment in favor of the defendant

officers on Lyttle’s false arrest and malicious prosecution claims. We AFFIRM the entry

of summary judgment in favor of all defendants on Lyttle’s and Thayer’s First

Amendment retaliation claims and on Thayer’s class-of-one equal protection claim. We

DISMISS Lyttle’s facial challenge to subsection (d) as moot. Lyttle’s Monell claim against

the City is REMANDED to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this

opinion.