Fehlman, Patrick v. Mankowski, James

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN PATRICK FEHLMAN, Plaintiff, OPINION and ORDER v. 21-cv-362-jdp JAMES MANKOWSKI, Defendant. This First Amendment retaliation case grew from the contentious relationship between two officers who both served as the chief of police for Neillsville, Wisconsin, a small town located between Eau Claire and Stevens Point. Plaintiff Patrick Fehlman was the interim police chief from February 2019 until defendant James Mankowski—an outside hire—took over in December 2019. Fehlman doesn’t say whether he and Mankowski competed for…