Legal Opinion
Leonard J. Trejo v. Edward J. Shoben, Jessie G. Delia, Larry R. Faulkner, Louis F. Fitzgerald
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 30, 2003No. 00-3341PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*881COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
Leonard J. Trejo was a non-tenured assistant professor of psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus who received three one-year appointments to his position in each of the school years between 1994-95 and 1996-97 before he got into trouble necessitating his discharge. After the University terminated him in August 1997, Trejo filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the University violated his constitutional rights to freedom of speech and due process under the Constitution of the United States and the State of Illinois. The district court…
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