Legal Opinion
Stephen Eberhardt v. Jack O'Malley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 1, 1994No. 93-2440PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Stephen Eberhardt was an Assistant State’s Attorney in Cook County, Illinois. In this civil rights suit brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against his supervisors, seeking both damages and equitable relief, he claims that he was fired from that position because he wrote a novel, and that to fire him for such a reason violated the right of freedom of expression conferred on him by the First Amendment. He also claims that an investigation which preceded his being fired deprived him of liberty within the meaning of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because it…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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3Cited by105 opinions
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- Ronald C. Denius v. Wayne Dunlap and Gary Sadler 1Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2000
- Cynthia Kernats v. Thomas O'SullivanCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1994
- Arlene Otis v. City of ChicagoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1994
- Alex Pearson v. Anthony RamosCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2001
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