LAFAYETTE LINEAR v. VILLAGE OF UNIVERSITY PARK, IL

No. 17-1940.

887 F.3d 842 (2018)

LAFAYETTE LINEAR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VILLAGE OF UNIVERSITY PARK, ILLINOIS, and Vivian Covington, Mayor, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 17, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Keleher , Attorney, KELEHER APPELLATE LAW GROUP, Chicago, IL, John Thomas Moran, Jr. , Attorney, MORAN LAW GROUP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jennifer L. Turiello , Attorney, Patrick S. Wall , PETERSON, JOHNSON & MURRAY — CHICAGO LLC, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Easterbrook and Rovner, Circuit Judges, and Griesbach, District Judge.


University Park hired Lafayette Linear as its Village Manager under a four-year contract that ran through May 2015, concurrent with the term of the Village's Mayor. In October 2014 the Village extended Linear's contract for a year. But by spring 2015 relations between Linear and the Village's elected officials had soured...

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