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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Fuentes denies Chicago and its police officers’ motion to bifurcate a wrongfully imprisoned man’s claims against them, and also denies the city’s motion to stay discovery until the claims against the individual police have been settled. The wrongfully imprisoned man spent 28 years behind bars for a murder and murder attempt he did not commit because Chicago police deliberately framed him, he says. The court declines to bifurcate the man’s civil rights claims against the police from his Monell claims against Chicago based partly on wanting to conserve “judicial economy” — even if the individual claims against the police fail, the Monell claims against the city implicating them may still stand. This, the court ruled, speaks to the overlap between the defendants both in discovery and litigation.