CAPEHEART v. TERRELL

No. 11-1473.

695 F.3d 681 (2012)

Loretta CAPEHEART, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Melvin C. TERRELL, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 29, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas D. Rosenwein (argued), Attorney, Glickman, Flesch & Rosenwein, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Peter G. Land (argued), Attorney, Franczek Radelet P.C., Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

James D. Holzhauer , Attorney, Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae American Association of University Professors.

Before MANION, ROVNER, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.


TINDER, Circuit Judge.

Loretta Capeheart is a tenured Justice Studies professor at Northeastern Illinois University and an outspoken critic of the university on a number of issues, including its failure to hire more Latino professors and its willingness to host military and CIA recruiters at campus job fairs. She believes that university officials have defamed her, refused to make her department chair, and denied her an award (among other things) because of her speech...

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