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SIGSWORTH v. CITY OF AURORA, ILL.

No. 05-4143.

487 F.3d 506 (2007)

Martin SIGSWORTH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF AURORA, ILLINOIS, an Illinois municipal corporation, a body politic; David Stover, Mayor of the City of Aurora, Illinois, William J. Lawler, Chief of Police of Aurora, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 25, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. DeRose (argued), DeRose & Associates, Hinsdale, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Patricia Witowski Supergan, City of Aurora Law Department, Aurora, IL, John B. Murphey (argued), Rosenthal, Murphey, Coblentz & Janega, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before WOOD, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

Martin Sigsworth, an investigator with the Aurora, Illinois Police Department, represented his agency on a multi-jurisdictional task force formed to investigate gang activity in and around the Aurora area. When key targets in a drug raid managed to evade arrest, Sigsworth suspected that they had been tipped off by some of the task force's members. Sigsworth reported his suspicions to his supervisors, and he claims that in retaliation for this...

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