United States Seventh Circuit

An assistant police chief did not have a protected First Amendment right to make certain statements to the press, thus his claim of termination in retaliation for the exercise of protected speech must fail; plaintiff failed to produce evidence of a conspiracy to violate his federally-protected rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/20/2003
• Published 08/20/2003

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, ROVNER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Donald E. Werthheimer (argued), South Bend, IN, for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter J. Agostino (argued), Anderson, Agostino & Keller, Thomas M. Dixon (argued), Dixon, Wright & Associates, South Bend, IN, Wayne E. Uhl, Office of the Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, for defendants-appellees.