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GANNON v. DALEY

No. 81 C 1512.

561 F.Supp. 1377 (1983)

John GANNON, Victoria Sierra, Wesley Spraggins, Oscar Nieves and Brenda Perry, Plaintiffs, v. Richard M. DALEY, individually and as State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois, Richard Devine, individually and as First Assistant State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois, and Cook County, Illinois, a Body Politic, Defendants.

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

April 27, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Boharic, Edward Theobald, Laurence W. Leck, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

John R. Schmidt, David N. Carvalho, Barbara Bertok, Mayer Brown & Platt, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

PRENTICE H. MARSHALL, District Judge.

In this lawsuit brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1976) plaintiffs claim that they were fired from their jobs as administrative assistants employed by the State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois, because of their political affiliation, in violation of their rights under the first amendment1 and the rule of Branti v. Finkel, 445 U.S. 507

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