Potkay v. Ament

DECISION AND ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND .PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION (DOC. 4)

C.N. CLEYERT, JR., District Judge.

This case brings to mind the old adage: “If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.” Here, the defendants argue that Mayor David Ament’s termination of Tamara Potkay’s employment as Director of Human Resources for the City of New Berlin was a permissible layoff pursuant to a “mini reduction in force” (a “mini-RIF”), but the termination looks and sounds like a firing in violation of civil service rules —…