Avet v. Dart, Sheriff of Cook County

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION GEORGE AVET, ) ) Plaintiff, ) Case No. 21-cv-2354 ) v. ) Hon. Steven C. Seeger ) THOMAS J. DART, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) ____________________________________) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER George Avet, a correctional officer with the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, testified in support of a race discrimination case brought by a colleague. That testimony, as Avet tells it, cost him. He claims that his supervisors retaliated against him in a number of different ways, punishing him for speaking up. He brings a…