LADIEN v. ASTRACHAN

No. 96-2672.

128 F.3d 1051 (1997)

Kimball H. LADIEN, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Boris ASTRACHAN, Gloria Jackson Bacon, and James Barter, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 22, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul R. Shuldiner, Karen F. Botterud (argued), Chicago, IL, for Kimball H. Ladien.

Carla J. Rozycki (argued), D. Scott Watson, Keck, Mahin & Cate, Chicago, IL, for Boris Astrachan, Gloria Jackson Bacon and James Barter.

Karen J. Dimond, Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Kenneth Boyle and Lee Combrinck-Graham.

Before EASTERBROOK, KANNE and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.


KANNE, Circuit Judge.

For one year, Dr. Kimball Ladien was employed as a child psychiatrist at the Institute for Juvenile Research.1 While there, Dr. Ladien voiced protest against what he believed to be gross medical misconduct by his employer and by the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute.

Because the Institute for Juvenile Research did not renew his contract for a second year, Dr. Ladien filed suit on June 22, 1992, alleging...

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