Legal Opinion
Czarniecki v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 21, 2011No. 09-1485, 09-2218, 09-3754PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Wojciech Czarniecki was a probationary police officer of the Chicago Police Department from November 2006 until he was dismissed in February 2007. In two federal lawsuits, Czarniecki has alleged that he was improperly dismissed because of his Polish national origin. In September 2007, Czarniecki filed the first suit against the City of Chicago and the Assistant Deputy Superintendent of the Police Academy, Matthew Tobias, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging national origin discrimination in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The…
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