Legal Opinion
Michael Dishnow v. School District of Rib Lake, Ramon Parks, and Paul Peterson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 28, 1996No. 95-2563PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Michael Dishnow was employed as a guidance counselor by a public high school in Rib Lake, a small town in northern Wisconsin. He brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the school district, the superintendent of the school district, and the principal of the high school, claiming that they had fired him in retaliation for his exercising his First Amendment right to free speech. The jury agreed and returned a verdict in his favor of almost $400,000, of which some 60 percent was for humiliation and injury to reputation and most of the rest for lost wages. The judge…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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