United States Seventh Circuit

In plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against several state officials, claiming that he was fired as the Chief of the Highway Sign Shop of the Illinois Department of Transportation in order to make room for an employee chosen by the administration of then-Governor Rod Blagojevich, district court's grant of defendants' motion for summary judgment is affirmed as, although the decision to fire plaintiff probably fell afoul of the Rutan principal (rule banning politically-based firings)l, defendants were entitled to qualified immunity.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/11/2010
• Decided 08/02/2010
• Published 08/02/2010

Judges

• WOOD

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel