Legal Opinion
George Rakovich v. Gregory Wade and Darryl Drake, George Rakovich v. Chester Kass
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 14, 1988No. 85-1529, 85-1530PublishedCited by 382 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Following a burglary at Cars Unlimited, a used car business in Greenfield, Wisconsin, the plaintiff, George Rakovich, met several times with burglary witness and Cars Unlimited employee, Vincent Sheehan. Concerned with what he viewed as the Greenfield Police Department’s (the Department) suspect commendation of Officer Mary Foley’s efforts in the subsequent burglary arrests, Rakovich criticized the Department and informed Sheehan of a “source” he claimed he had within the Department. From that source, he told Shee-han, he had learned the Greenfield Police…
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