NORTHEN v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 97-1245.

126 F.3d 1024 (1997)

John W. NORTHEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 8, 1997.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied November 4, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rick Halprin (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lawrence Rosenthal, Mardell Nereim (argued), Benna R. Solomon, Eileen B. Libby, Susan S. Sher, Office of the Corporation Counsel, Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and MANION and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied November 4, 1997.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

This case follows a common modern pattern. A public employee has a dispute with his employer, and loses his job or suffers some other adverse personnel action. He brings a blunderbuss civil rights case under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against everyone in sight, seeking improbable millions of dollars in damages ($7 million here). The defendants pick through the lengthy complaint...

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