Legal Opinion
Kevin Carmody v. Board of Trustees of the Unive
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 19, 2018No. 16-1335PublishedCited by 142 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hamilton, Circuit Judge.
The University of Illinois fired plaintiff Kevin Carmody from his job as an information technology manager after printed copies of a professor's privileged emails suspiciously ended up in Carmody's home newspaper box. The emails allegedly exposed inconsistencies in the professor's testimony in a separate lawsuit that Carmody was pursuing against a different professor. The university learned about the mysterious delivery because Carmody's lawyer in the lawsuit filed the emails with the court. After finding that it was "more probable than not" that Carmody improperly…
2Cases cited52 opinions
- Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Will v. Michigan Department of State PoliceSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Ex Parte YoungSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Edelman v. JordanSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Cleveland Board of Education v. LoudermillSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
47 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.
3Cited by142 opinions
- Silva v. StateCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2019
- Christopher Coleman v. City of Peoria, IllinoisCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2019
- Uncommon, LLC v. Spigen, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2019
- Percy Taylor v. Joseph WaysCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2021
- Lloyd Johnson v. Karen RimmerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2019
137 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.