Portis v. City of Chicago, Illinois

Dist. Ct. erred in granting plaintiffs' request for finding that defendants-police officials had two-hour time limit to perform necessary steps to issue CB number and obtain plaintiff's release following their arrests for offenses that are punishable by fines but not imprisonment in instant class action seeking damages for detentions taking longer than two hours. Under Gerstein, 420 US 103, Dist. Ct. could not establish blanket rule that set maximum amount of allowable delay and must instead consider each case on its own facts to determine if individual delays were unreasonable. Moreover, class action had to be decertified due to fact that each case required individual consideration.