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PALKA v. SHELTON

No. 08-4245.

623 F.3d 447 (2010)

Tadeusz PALKA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Roger SHELTON, Cook County Sheriff Police Detective, individually, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 7, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Steven Platt (argued), Arnold & Kadjan, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Teresa Abreu (argued), Office of the Cook County State's Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Kerrie Maloney Laytin (argued), Office of the Corporation Counsel, for Defendant-Appellee Chicago Police Department.

Before RIPPLE, KANNE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

SYKES, Circuit Judge.

Tadeusz Palka was employed for 28 years as a Deputy Sheriff in the Cook County Sheriff's Department. His son Peter was an aspiring police officer enrolled in the Chicago Police Department's Police Academy. He did not complete the program, however. He was terminated from the Academy, ostensibly for not having mastered the Police Department's firearms manual. Palka thought his son had been targeted for termination based on his Polish ethnicity...

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