Legal Opinion
Mary Lou Lawson v. Sheriff of Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 23, 1984No. 82-1838PublishedCited by 127 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff brought this civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a sheriff in Indiana, and others, alleging that she had been deprived of liberty and property, without due process of law, because the sheriff fired her from her job as a police radio dispatcher. Her husband had just been arrested for alleged participation in an interstate automobile theft ring, and in firing her the sheriff made statements that were printed in the local newspapers to the effect that she had been fired because her job gave her access to the computer that contained automobile…
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