Legal Opinion
Chester A. Lauth v. Daniel L. McCollum
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 20, 2005No. 04-3782PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, Lauth, a police officer in the Chicago suburb of LaGrange Park, sued his police chief, McCollum, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The suit charged that McCollum (and the Village, but it’s been dropped as a defendant) had deprived Lauth of the equal protection of the laws by asking the Village’s Board of Police Commissioners to sanction him for misfeasance. (The Board obliged.) The district judge granted summary judgment for the defendants, and Lauth appeals.
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