United States Seventh Circuit

Where an employee is fired for insubordination, evidence that the defendant supervisor was under pressure to "get rid of" employee is insufficient to prove retaliation for employee's exercise of First Amendment rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/22/2002
• Published 01/22/2002

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert W. Lewis (argued), Eric O. Clark, Gary, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas E. Wheeler, II (argued), Locke Reynolds, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.