AKANDE v. GROUNDS

No. 07-3800.

555 F.3d 586 (2009)

Adetunji AKANDE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Randall GROUNDS, Terry Guy, Jeanie Campanella, and Dee Dee Brookhart, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 9, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Baker, J. Phillip Krajewski (argued), Baker, Baker & Krajewski, Springfield, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Paul Berks, Brett E. Legner (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before FLAUM, WOOD, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Adetunji Akande alleged that the defendants—all employees of the Illinois Department of Corrections—deprived him of a property interest in his employment in violation of the due process clause of the Constitution. The district court granted summary judgment to defendants, finding that they were entitled to qualified immunity because Akande could not establish that he had been subject to a constitutional violation. For the reasons...

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