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BENSON v. SCOTT

No. 83-1040.

734 F.2d 1181 (1984)

William J. BENSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William J. SCOTT and Herbert Caplan, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 9, 1984.

Rehearing Denied July 2, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew B. Spiegel, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Imelda Terrazino, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

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

ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.1

The appellant, William J. Benson, initiated this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the district court alleging that William J. Scott, former Illinois Attorney General, and Herbert Caplan, former Illinois First Assistant Attorney General, violated Benson's rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The district court entered summary judgment for the defendants, finding that they were entitled to qualified...

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