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NEKOLNY v. PAINTER

No. 80-1731.

653 F.2d 1164 (1981)

Edward NEKOLNY, Patrick Dumas, and Maria L. Dahms, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Ann B. PAINTER, Individually and as Supervisor of Lyons Township, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 13, 1981.

As Amended August 14, 1981.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied November 2, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George C. Pontikes, Foss, Schuman & Drake, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Dan Walker, Jr., Oak Brook, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge, and WOOD and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 2, 1981.

SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves the First Amendment rights of three Lyons Township employees who were found by a jury to have lost their jobs because they had campaigned for the Township Supervisor's opponent in an election. The defendant-appellant Supervisor alleges as error the district court's allocation of the burden and standard of proof; the directed verdict finding that the...

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