Legal Opinion
Robert B. LEE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF PEORIA, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 6, 1982No. 81-2642PublishedCited by 154 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PELL, Circuit Judge.
In this suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, and 1985 (1976), the appel lant Robert B. Lee claims that the Peoria Police Department and the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners (Board) discriminated against, and eventually discharged, him from the police department on the basis of race. In response to the defendants’ motions, the district court apparently dismissed the suit on grounds of res judicata and collateral estoppel, because it found the issue of whether Lee’s discharge was racially motivated to have been determined against him in a state dismissal…
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