United States Seventh Circuit

In plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against his Illinois state police supervisors claiming that they retaliated against him because he complained about conditions at a firing range, summary judgment in favor of the defendants is affirmed, but based on a different reason that plaintiff's internal grievance was on a matter of purely private interest, addressing only the effect of lead contamination on himself and his work environment, and thus did not raise a matter of public concern and is not protected by the First Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/06/2010
• Published 01/06/2010

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John A. Baker, Attorney, Baker, Baker & Krajewski, Springfield, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul Berks, Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.