Lisa Baron and Matt Knight obtained a verdict for the Defendant City of Mishawaka in St. Joseph County Circuit Court on August 21, 2025. The case involved a police pursuit which was initiated after a suspected felon fled on foot from responding officers, was observed grabbing at his waistband, and continued his flight by getting into the rear passenger side …
Summary Judgment Granted in General Liability Case in Winnebago County, IL
In Javon Bea Hospital v. City of Rockford (Winnebago County IL 2025) CJK was retained to represent the City of Rockford against Javon Bea Hospital who maintained that a flooding event in 2018 resulted in over $32 million dollars of damage to the hospital. The allegations asserted that Rockford negligently installed an undersized sewer system along the hospital property that …
Summary Judgment Granted for Defendants in Jail Deprivation of Medical Care Case
Joseph Smith and Lisa Baron obtained summary judgment in favor of the Sheriff’s Department in a federal lawsuit alleging that the County Jail and Jail officers violated the Eighth Amendment when they returned an injured inmate to the Department of Corrections, after he was attacked by another inmate and suffered a broken jaw, instead of taking him to a hospital …
Complete Defense Victory for the Macon County Sheriff’s Office
In April 2025, attorneys Matthew Knight and Susan Eberhardt secured a complete defense victory for the Macon County Sheriff’s Office in Decatur, Illinois through a Rule 50 motion for judgment as a matter of law at the close of Plaintiff’s case. Over the course of five (5) days in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, …
Jury Returns Defense Verdict for City of Elkhart
In June 2024, Matthew Knight and Katlyn Christman obtained a defense verdict on behalf of the City of Elkhart, Indiana. The case was tried over three days in the Elkhart Circuit Court. The claims against the City arose from a tragic occurrence involving a driver who failed to negotiate a jog in the roadway and drove onto the sidewalk, striking …
Successful Negotiation of a Law Enforcement-Involved Shooting in Northern District of Illinois
In Blake v. City of Rockford (N.D. Ill. 2024), CJK was retained to represent the City of Rockford and its Officer Krantz in a deadly force police-involved shooting case, in which Plaintiff alleged constitutional violations pursuant to Section 1983. Officer Krantz shot and killed a suspect with mental health difficulties after the City barricaded his house for about 9 hours. …