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EBERHARDT v. O'MALLEY

No. 93-2440.

17 F.3d 1023 (1994)

Stephen EBERHARDT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jack O'MALLEY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 1, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Appel (argued), Lansing, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

Randolph M. Johnston, Karen J. Diamond, Office of the State's Atty. of Cook County, Chicago, IL, Terry L. McDonald, Asst. State's Atty., Office of the State's Atty. of Cook County, Federal Litigation Div., Chicago, IL, Karen A. Covy (argued), Office of the State's Atty. of Cook County, Labor & Employment Div., Chicago, IL, for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and FAIRCHILD and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

Stephen Eberhardt was an Assistant State's Attorney in Cook County, Illinois. In this civil rights suit brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against his supervisors, seeking both damages and equitable relief, he claims that he was fired from that position because he wrote a novel, and that to fire him for such a reason violated the right of freedom of expression conferred on him by the First Amendment. He also claims that an investigation which...

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