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WILLIAMS v. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

No. 86-0995.

147 Ill. App.3d 374 (1986)

497 N.E.2d 1226

ROBERT MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (4th Division).

Opinion filed August 28, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Downing, David F. Graham, and Timothy T. Scott, all of Widley & Austin, of Chicago, and Martha P. Mandel, of Northwestern University, of Evanston, for appellants.

Daniel Karlin and Peter V. Baugher, of Adams, Fox, Adelstein & Rosen, both of Chicago, for appellee.

Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE JOHNSON delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Dr. Robert M. Williams, brought an action in the circuit court of Cook County against defendants, Northwestern University, Dr. Roy Patterson (chairman of the University's department of medicine), and Dr. Nathaniel I. Berlin (chief of the school's medical oncology section). Plaintiff alleged that defendants are forcing him to resign from his position of tenured professor at...

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