BAERWALD v. CITY OF MILWAUKEE

No. 97-1460.

131 F.3d 681 (1997)

Paul BAERWALD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF MILWAUKEE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 9, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Corris (argued), Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Bruce Schrimpf (argued), Office of the City Attorney, Milwaukee, WI, Heidi A. Wick, Milwaukee City Attorney's Office, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Timothy E. Hawks, Shneidman, Myers, Dowling & Blumenfield, Milwaukee, WI, for Amicus Curiae.

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


POSNER, Chief Judge.

A wholly unnecessary employment dispute has spawned two years of federal litigation and more than 100 pages of briefs in this court. It is not the stuff of which constitutional cases should be made.

The facts, greatly abridged and slanted in the plaintiff's favor because the district judge granted summary judgment for the defendants, are as follows. Paul Baerwald, a Milwaukee firefighter, injured his back and shoulder while on the job...

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