Legal Opinion
Sean Gschwind v. Linda Heiden
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 31, 2012No. 12-1755PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff taught sixth-grade math at a public school in Harvard, Illinois, a small town. He was forced to resign after hé complained to school administrators and the police about a threat to him made by one of his students. He claims in this civil rights suit against the school’s principal and assistant principal and against the school district that his forced resignation was in retaliation for his exercising his First Amendment right of free speech. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants on the ground that the plaintiffs complaint about being…
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