BELLINO v. PETERS

No. 07-2068.

530 F.3d 543 (2008)

Joseph M. BELLINO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Mary E. PETERS, Secretary, United States Department of Transportation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 19, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward M. Fox, Meghan A. Carlock-Gonnissen (argued), Fox & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Kurt Lindland (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before FLAUM, WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

This case stems largely from a knee injury Joseph M. Bellino suffered while tracking planes in the air-traffic-control tower of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. As is relevant here, there are two kinds of air-traffic controllers: those who coordinate the planes' movements from a remote location via radar and those who, like Bellino, coordinate the planes' takeoffs and landings from the airport's control tower. The latter job involves frequent...

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