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Adams et al. v. Vanick

98 L 4778 (Circuit Court of Cook County)

$36,000,000, plus interest, against Cook County sheriff’s police who framed four innocent African American men (the Ford Heights Four) sending two to death row and suppressing evidence exonerating them. The largest settlement of its kind to date.