O'BRIEN v. VILLAGE OF LINCOLNSHIRE

No. 19-1349.

955 F.3d 616 (2020)

Dixon O'BRIEN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. VILLAGE OF LINCOLNSHIRE, a Municipal Corporation, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 7, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Connolly, Jr. , Attorney, Robert A. Paszta , Attorney, Dale D. Pierson , Attorney, IUOE Local 150 Legal Department, Countryside, IL, Kara Pomerantz Principe , Attorney, Joseph P. Sweeney , Attorney, Indiana Illinois Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting, Countryside, IL, Kenneth Lumb , Attorney, Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Dixon O'Brien and International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 150, AFLCIO.

James Connolly, Jr. , Attorney, Robert A. Paszta , Attorney, Dale D. Pierson , Attorney, IUOE Local 150 Legal Department, Countryside, IL, Terrance B. McGann , Attorney, Karen M. Rioux , Attorney, McGann Ketterman & Rioux, Chicago, IL, Kara Pomerantz Principe , Attorney, Joseph P. Sweeney , Attorney, Indiana Illinois Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting, Countryside, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant John Cook.

Robert A. Paszta , Attorney, IUOE Local 150 Legal Department, Countryside, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.

Lorilea Buerkett , Attorney, Daniel Hamilton , Attorney, Brown, Hay & Stephens, LLP, Springfield, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Brian J. Connolly , Attorney, Otten Johnson Robinson Neff & Ragonetti PC, Denver, CO, for Amicus Curiae.

Before Rovner, Scudder, and St. Eve, Circuit Judges.


Dixon O'Brien, John Cook, and the unions to which they belong sued the Village of Lincolnshire and the Illinois Municipal League claiming violations of their rights under the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as well as violations of state law. The district court dismissed their federal...

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