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BICANIC v. McDERMOTT

No. 88-2147.

867 F.2d 391 (1989)

Michael BICANIC, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas M. McDERMOTT, Individually and as the Mayor of the City of Hammond, Indiana, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 31, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Adley, Hammond, Ind., for plaintiff-appellant.

William J. Moran, Highland, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before FLAUM, EASTERBROOK, and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

We must decide a case that has visited too many courts already. At the end of 1983 the City of Hammond, Indiana, fired Michael Bicanic, its Administrator of Parks and Recreation. He filed suit in August 1984 in the Circuit Court of Lake County, Indiana, contending that the discharge was politically motivated and violated the first amendment to the Constitution, applicable to the states through the fourteenth and implemented by 42 U.S.C...

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