Whalen, Mark v. MacKenzie, Dana

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN MARK WHALEN and JAKE WHALEN, Plaintiffs, OPINION and ORDER v. 24-cv-342-jdp DANA MACKENZIE and TYLER SELK, Defendants. Father-and-son plaintiffs Mark and Jake Whalen sued Waunakee high school basketball coaches Dana MacKenzie and Tyler Selk under

42 U.S.C. § 1983

for their alleged retaliatory decision to cut Jake from the basketball team after Mark publicly asserted that defendants misappropriated funds from a basketball camp booster.1 In August 2023, as part of ongoing attempts to oust defendants from the basketball…