Opinion of the Court — Parrillo v. Reilly

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Type: Opinion of the Court
Filed: Jan. 16, 2003
Case: Parrillo v. Reilly
Case status: Decided

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ORDER The 1970 divorce between Donald Parrillo and Nancy Reilly triggered an avalanche of litigation that continues to this day. We now consider six cases filed by Parrillo and his children that have been consolidated for appeal. In July 2001 he and daughter Kimberly Schob brought suit in federal district court alleging that various defendants had violated their civil rights by participating in an Indiana state-court proceeding to domesticate a property settlement agreement reached in a 1994 Illinois proceeding between Parrillo and Reilly. The Indiana litigation resulted in the seizure and sale of Parrillo’s assets, including a condominium located in Michigan City. Along the way, Parrillo was held in civil contempt and jailed for approximately three weeks. The plaintiffs filed their complaint in federal district court in Illinois against Reilly; her divorce attorneys, Donald Rice and Frank Wesolowski; Parrillo’s former bankruptcy attorney, I. Alexander Woloshansky; and Schob’s former attorney, Michael Back. The plaintiffs alleged that these defendants violated their due process rights by wrongfully taking their property, see 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , and that Back and Woloshansky committe…

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