Legal Opinion
Jerome Jones, and All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Gary, Indiana
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 22, 1995No. 94-2673PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
Jerome Jones filed a class action complaint in district court alleging that Fire Chief Benjamin Perry, acting on behalf of the City of Gary, Indiana, was summarily suspending firefighters without pay and without pre-sus-pension hearings, thus depriving them of their protected property interests in their employment without due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1988.1 Both parties filed cross motions for summary judgment. The district court granted the City’s motion and denied Jones’s motion, finding that Jones’s post-suspension…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of CatrettSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Mathews v. EldridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Board of Regents of State Colleges v. RothSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Morrissey v. BrewerSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by34 opinions
- Lionel Bordelon v. Chicago School Reform Board of TrusteesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2000
- People v. FisherIllinois Supreme Court · 1998
- Elton J. Crim v. Board of Education of Cairo School District No. 1, Charles Althoff, Individually, Kenneth R. Jones, IndividuallyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1998
- Lawrence Head v. Chicago School Reform Board of TrusteesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2000
- William Hudson and Bishop Pamon v. City of ChicagoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2004
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