AVERHART v. SHERIFF OF COOK COUNTY, ILL.

No. 13-2949.

752 F.3d 1104 (2014)

Yvonne AVERHART, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SHERIFF OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 28, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yvonne Averhart, Chicago, IL, pro se.

Nicole Kacor Pasquinelli , Attorney, James C. Pullos , Attorney, Joyce Ellen Schoonover , Attorney, Office of the Cook County State's Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, FLAUM, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Yvonne Averhart, formerly employed as a guard at the Cook County Jail, was suspended without pay in 2001 and fired in 2003. She filed her first federal lawsuit in 2001; the current suit is her fourth. She has lost them all. She filed and lost two state suits as well. The district court dismissed the current suit as barred by the earlier decisions.

Averhart believes that the Sheriff's Department, which manages the Jail, set out to punish her for...

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