Legal Opinion
Hefley v. Bruch
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 2, 2008No. 07-3450PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Four years ago, Travis Hefley was fired from his job as a part-time police officer. He has challenged that termination in federal court ever since. In this case, his second lawsuit arising from his termination, he argues that lawyers for the police department violated his civil rights in litigating his original employment-discrimination suit. The district court dismissed his complaint because it was frivolous, and we affirm.
*507In Hefley’s first suit, he claimed that the Village of Calumet Park and its chief of police discriminated against him because he is white. Hefley lost that case, both…
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