Legal Opinion
Barbara Propst and Franklin M. Propst v. Donald L. Bitzer, Morton W. Weir, Judith S. Liebman, and Robert M. Berdahl
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 1, 1994No. 93-3825, 93-3826PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Barbara Propst, former Assistant Director of the Computer-based Education and Research Laboratory (“CERL”) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1 and her husband Franklin M. Propst, former Associate Director of CERL, sued the Laboratory’s Director, Donald L. Bitzer, and three university administrators. The Propsts contended that they had been transferred from their positions at CERL in retaliation for exposing Bitzer’s misappropriation of university funds, in violation of the First Amendment and state law. The Propsts now appeal several of the District…
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