Legal Opinion
Soderbeck v. Burnett County
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 4, 1985No. Nos. 83-3232, 83-3161 and 84-1437PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Arline Soderbeck brought this suit under section 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, now 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against Robert Kellberg (the Sheriff of Burnett County, Wisconsin), the three members of the county’s Law Enforcement Committee, and the county itself. She alleges that she was fired from her job in the sheriff’s office in violation of her rights under the First Amendment, made applicable to state action by the Fourteenth Amendment. She had been hired to work in the sheriff’s department when her husband was the sheriff, but Kellberg defeated Soderbeck in a subsequent…
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