GARRISON v. BURKE

No. 97-1499.

165 F.3d 565 (1999)

Heather GARRISON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lieutenant Tom BURKE, Individually and in his official capacity as Lieutenant of the Rockford Fire Department, City of Rockford, a municipal corporation, William Baylor, Frank Genestra, Ronald Graw, Edward Archer, Steve Leighty, and Lyndell Pond, Individually and in their official capacity as officials of the Rockford Fire Department, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 14, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. Diedrich (argued), DeKalb, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Daniel J. Cain, Sreenan & Cain, Kerry F. Partridge (argued), City of Rockford, David A. Caulk, Rockford, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Ronald N. Schultz, Douglas P. Scott, Kerry F. Partridge (argued), City of Rockford, Daniel J. McGrail, Rockford, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before COFFEY, FLAUM and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.


COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff-appellant Heather Garrison, a firefighter with the City of Rockford, Illinois, Fire Department, filed a sexual harassment suit in the Northern District of Illinois, naming as defendants the City of Rockford, the officials of the Rockford Fire Department, and a lieutenant in the department, Tom Burke. On January 27, 1997, the trial court granted summary judgment to the defendants, ruling...

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