Legal Opinion
Palka v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 18, 2011No. 09-2042, 09-3796PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
In 2007 Peter Palka was dismissed as a probationary police officer in the officer-training program at the Chicago Police Academy. He claims he was fired because of his Polish ethnicity. The City says he was terminated because he violated departmental rules and repeatedly flunked the firearms exam. Peter’s father, Tadeusz Palka, a Cook County Deputy Sheriff, contacted Matthew Tobias, Peter’s supervisor at the Chicago Police Academy, and tried to get his son reinstated. That effort failed.
Peter’s dismissal from the Academy set off a strange series of events. After Tobias…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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