Legal Opinion
Barbara M. Ryan and William O. Gillespie v. Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 16, 1999No. 97-2426PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
William Gillespie and Barbara Ryan served for many years in the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (“DCFS”), rising ultimately to become Regional Administrator and Assistant Regional Administrator for the Springfield Region, respectively. DCFS has had its troubles over the years, and by the early 1990s some of those problems came to a head. Gillespie and Ryan lost their jobs, because, they claim, they were among the agency’s critics. This led to the present lawsuit against DCFS itself and eleven individuals associated with it, in which they…
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