United States Seventh Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging that state social-services employees had retaliated against plaintiff-healthcare provider by instigating the launch of a predatory enforcement campaign aimed at driving plaintiff out of business, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff did not produce sufficient evidence to demonstrate a causal link between its protected First Amendment activity and the alleged retaliation by defendants; and 2) plaintiff did not produce sufficient evidence to substantiate any of its three equal-protection claims.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/13/2008
• Decided 09/05/2008
• Published 09/05/2008

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William P. Tedards, Jr. (argued), Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Frances Barrow (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.