Legal Opinion
Dorothy Stevens v. Dorothy Wright Tillman
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 18, 1988No. 87-1031, 87-1200PublishedCited by 98 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Dorothy Stevens was the principal of Mollison Elementary School in Chicago between 1962, when it opened, and 1981. Her career at Mollison ended unpleasantly. In December 1980 Dorothy Tillman was elected president of the Mollison School Local Advisory Council, a parent-teacher association sponsored by Chicago’s Board of Education. Tillman launched the Council on a crusade to remove Stevens as principal. Tillman and supporters occupied Stevens’s office at the school for three days running and served her with an “eviction notice”; they organized a boycott that (they…
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