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LAWSON v. SHERIFF OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY, IND.

No. 82-1838.

725 F.2d 1136 (1984)

Mary Lou LAWSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SHERIFF OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY, INDIANA, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 23, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Burgett, Lafayette, Ind., Richard L. Russell, Bayliff, Harrican, ord, Maugans & Russell, Kokomo, Ind., for plaintiff-appellant.

Paul D. Ewan, Schultz, Ewan & Burns, Joseph T. Bumbleburg, Ball, Eggleston, Bumbleburg & McBride, Lafayette, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, and CUDAHY and POSNER, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff brought this civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a sheriff in Indiana, and others, alleging that she had been deprived of liberty and property, without due process of law, because the sheriff fired her from her job as a police radio dispatcher. Her husband had just been arrested for alleged participation in an interstate automobile theft ring, and in firing her the sheriff made statements that were printed in...

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