Cole v. Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University

*928 ORDER

FREDERICK J. KAPALA, District Judge.

Defendants’ motion to dismiss [52] is granted in part and denied in part. Counts IV, V, and VI are dismissed.

STATEMENT

Plaintiff, Jerome Cole, has sued his current employer, the Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University (“NIU”), and several of NIU’s employees, Charlotte Marx, Tammie Pulak, Jeff Daurer, Sara Cliffe, Brian Hart, Emily Murray, Jesse Perez, John Holmes, Rhonda Richards, and Bill Nicklas (collectively the “individual defendants”), alleging violations of 42 U.S.C. § 1981, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Title VII, the whistleblower provisions of…