Legal Opinion
Jennifer Venters v. City of Delphi and Larry Ives
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 19, 1997No. 96-1355PublishedCited by 290 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
After she was fired from her position as a radio dispatcher for the police department of Delphi, Indiana, Jennifer Venters sued the city and its Police Chief Larry Ives on the grounds that the discharge violated her rights to freedom of speech, religion, and association under the First Amendment, and that the discharge as well as the treatment she had endured during her employment with the city amounted to religious discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended. The district court entered summary judgment against Venters on all…
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