Legal Opinion
Chaklos v. Stevens
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 30, 2009No. 07-3444PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
When Richard Chaklos and Andrew Wist discovered that the State of Illinois was going to pay an out-of-state organization $750,000 to train forensic scientists without first soliciting competitive bids, they decided to take action and try to save the taxpayers some money. They submitted a letter protesting the State’s decision not to solicit bids and proposing to provide the same training services for a lower price through their own company. At the time, however, the State employed Chak-los and Wist to train forensic scientists. (They had formed their training company…
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