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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Valderrama grants a suburban Illinois police officer's motion for summary judgment in this civil rights case, and denies a hospital system's motion for summary judgment for its own involvement in the case. In the case, police in suburban Chicagoland pulled over a man for alleged traffic violations but then subjected him to dog-sniffing when they suspected he had cannabis on his person. The police also took the man to Christ Hospital in the suburb of Oak Lawn, where doctors carried out an examination to see if he was hiding drugs in his rectum. Ultimately only miniscule amounts of cannabis were found in the man's car, and none were found in his rectum. The man then sued all parties for battery and carrying out unreasonable searches. The court finds the man has not presented sufficient evidence regarding the alleged unreasonableness of the officers' initial stop and search, but that there is still a factual dispute as to whether he fully consented to the rectal examination.