Legal Opinion
Mark A. Nisenbaum, Cross-Appellee v. Milwaukee County
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 25, 2003No. 02-4296, 03-1021PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
At the end of 1998, Mark Nisenbaum lost his job as a security supervisor at Milwaukee County’s Department of Public Works. Invoking 42 U.S.C. § 1983, he sued everyone in sight: the County, the County Executive (F. Thomas Ament), the Department’s Director of Facilities Management (Daryl Bzdawka) and his deputy (Lawrence Lauer), its Human Resources Manager (Doris Harmon), and his immediate supervisor (Cortez VanFelder). According to Nisenbaum, he was sacked because he ran for public office (County Clerk) in the fall of 1998. He contends that the discharge violated his…
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