United States Seventh Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 suit alleging retaliation for an employee's allegations of corruption is affirmed where the employee did not present evidence substantiating the causal link between his protected reports of corruption and the subsequent adverse employment actions.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/27/2005
• Decided 06/16/2006
• Published 06/16/2006

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, KANNE and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan C. Goldman, Arthur R. Ehrlich (argued), Goldman & Ehrlich, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mara S. Georges, Sara K. Hornstra (argued), Office of the Corporation Counsel, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.