Legal Opinion
Lafayette Linear v. Village of University Park, IL
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 17, 2018No. 17-1940PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Easterbrook, Circuit Judge.
*843 University Park hired Lafayette Linear as its Village Manager under a four-year contract that ran through May 2015, concurrent with the term of the Village's Mayor. In October 2014 the Village extended Linear's contract for a year. But by spring 2015 relations between Linear and the Village's elected officials had soured. In April 2015 Mayor Covington was reelected, and her new term began in May. That month the Board of Trustees decided that Linear would no longer be Village Manager. His contract provides for six months' severance pay if the Board discharges him…
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