Legal Opinion
Daniel Houlihan v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 8, 2017No. 16-2949PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Chicago Police Department Unit 542 provides protective services for the city’s mayor. The plaintiffs here are current and former police officers who served on this unit when Richard M. Daley was Mayor. But after Rahm Emanuel took office, the department demoted them, appointing different officers in their stead.
The plaintiffs sued the City of Chicago, Emanuel, and numerous government officials, asserting two types of claims: first, that the defendants considered political loyalties when appointing officers to Emanuel’s security detail in violation of the First Amendment…
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