HERMES v. HEIN

No. 79 C 749.

479 F.Supp. 820 (1979)

John Michael HERMES, Burt Kaminsky, Arthur Hockstadter, Timothy Hillyer, Frank Murphy, Michael Rompala, Jr., Michael Staufenbiel, Dexter Gorski, Lawrence Parks, Bruce P. Batka, and William Sharpe, Plaintiffs, v. William HEIN, Individually and as President of the Village Board of the Village of Wheeling, Illinois; Ronald Bruhn, Individually and as Chairman of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners of the Village of Wheeling, Illinois; Jack Metzger, Individually and as Secretary of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners of the Village of Wheeling, Illinois; Jerome Vesecky, Individually and as a Member of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners of the Village of Wheeling, Illinois; and the Village of Wheeling, an Illinois Municipal Corporation and Body Politic, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

November 16, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Wall and Joseph A. Morris, Rothschild, Barry & Myers, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Gary A. Weintraub, Jann, Carroll, Kruse & Sain, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


ORDER

BUA, District Judge.

This is an action brought by police officers of the Village of Wheeling pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 42 U.S.C. § 1985 alleging that the defendants violated their First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The defendants in this case are the members of the Village of Wheeling Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, the President of the Village Board of Wheeling, and...

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