Legal Opinion
Felix A. Olivieri v. Matt L. Rodriguez
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 15, 1997No. 96-4069PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
A probationary Chicago police officer fired on grounds of having sexually harassed female probationers at the police training academy sued the police superintendent under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The basis of the suit was the ex-officer’s claim that firing him on such a ground has prevented him from obtaining other employment as a police officer and by doing this has curtailed his liberty of employment without due process because, being merely a probationer, he was not granted a hearing before (or for that matter after) he was fired. The district court granted summary judgment…
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