Hamilton v. Village of Oak Lawn

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Allan Lorincz, a man in his mid-80s retired from the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he had been a distinguished dermatologist, was dying of Parkinson’s disease in the spring of 2010 when, according to the plaintiff, Maisha Hamilton, he hired her to help him in his home with various “end-of-life tasks.” She was a friend of a wayward daughter of Lorincz. A defrocked physician, the daughter was, during the events giving rise to this law-suit, serving jail time for criminal contempt.

After working 88 hours for Lorincz, Hamilton asked him for $5,720 in back wages…