Legal Opinion
Salm v. Broncato
District Court, C.D. Illinois
Decided June 15, 2001No. 99-3039PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RICHARD MILLS, District Judge.
The argument seemed sound enough, but when a theory collides with a fact, the result is a tragedy.
Louis Nizer
“My Life in Court”
Doubleday, 1961
Plaintiffs theories regarding the deprivation of her civil rights may seem sound, but her theories have collided with the fact that (1) she has not established a nexus between her speech and the non-renewal of her employment contract and the fact that (2) she has not established that she was an employee of the State of Illinois.
Summary judgment granted for Defendants.
I. BACKGROUND
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