Legal Opinion
Thomas Hall v. Steve Babb, Brian Piersma, and Barbara Westell
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 24, 2004No. 03-3631PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Thomas Hall has brought this suit on the basic premise (with which few would disagree in the abstract) that political patronage is not yet dead in Illinois. Hall was passed over for a new job within the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) in 1999. He believed that his lack of success could be traced to the fact that the other applicant, while a fellow member of the Republican Party, was somehow a more zealous Republican than Hall. Hall sued the three state officials who had interviewed him and made the decision to hire the other applicant under 42 U.S.C.…
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