Legal Opinion
McGuffin v. Springfield Housing Authority
District Court, C.D. Illinois
Decided July 1, 1987No. 79-3116PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ORDER
MILLS, District Judge:
Violation of a Court order.
Civil contempt?
Just so.
Court orders are to be complied with both in letter and spirit — lack of scienter is beside the mark.
Robert McGuffin, former Executive Director of the Springfield Housing Authority, instituted this lawsuit in May 1979 under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the municipal body and its governing board to contest the termination of his employment as violative of procedural due process.
The litigants subsequently settled the controversy in October 1979. The late Judge J. Waldo Ackerman entered an order under which McGuffin…
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