Legal Opinion
Loretta Capeheart v. Melvin Terrell
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 29, 2012No. 11-1473PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
Loretta Capeheart is a tenured Justice Studies professor at Northeastern Illinois University and an outspoken critic of the university on a number of issues, including its failure to hire more Latino professors and its willingness to host military and CIA recruiters at campus job fairs. She believes that university officials have defamed her, refused to make her department chair, and denied her an award (among other things) because of her speech. In her federal claim, Capeheart has sued Sharon Hahs and Lawrence Frank in their official capacities as Northeastern’s…
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