Legal Opinion
Klunk v. County of St. Joseph
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 19, 1999No. 98-2039PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Judge Peter J. Nemeth of the St. Joseph County Probate Court and Thomas N. Frederick, Director of Court Services, terminated Edward M. Klunk, an employee of the St. Joseph County Juvenile Probation Department, after Klunk announced he intended to run for a position on the Board of Trustees of the South Bend Community School Corporation (the “School Board”). Klunk sued St. Joseph County and his supervisors in the Northern District of Indiana for violating the First Amendment and the Indiana Constitution. The district court granted judgment as a matter of law to the…
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- Pickering v. Board of Ed. of Township High School Dist. 205, Will Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Rankin v. McPhersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Margaret H. Wright v. Illinois Department of Children & Family ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1994
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