BORDELON v. BOARD OF EDUC. OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 14-3240.

811 F.3d 984 (2016)

Lionel BORDELON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO, a municipal corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 3, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul John Bargiel , Attorney, Law Office of Paul J. Bargiel , Terri Smith Blanchard , Attorney, Barclay Law Group, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lee A. Lowder , Attorney, Chicago Board of Education Law Department, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before BAUER, POSNER, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


On January 28, 2011, the Local School Council in charge of Kozminski Community Academy voted to not renew the contract of long-tenured principal Lionel Bordelon. Bordelon, who was 63 at the time, believed that his supervisor and Chief Area Officer for the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, Dr. Judith Coates, manipulated...

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