Legal Opinion
Robert C. Atkins v. Hancock County Sheriff's Merit Board
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 7, 1990No. 88-2585PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, an employee in the office of the sheriff of Hancock County, Indiana, was discharged for insubordination, after a hearing before the sheriff’s merit board. Pursuant to section 36-8-10-11 of the Indiana Code, Atkins sought review of his termination in a circuit court of Indiana, which, after first remanding the matter to the board for a further hearing on the ground that Atkins had not been given sufficient notice of the first hearing, upheld his discharge. Atkins then brought this federal civil rights suit, in which he contends that he was in fact…
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