Chester A. Lauth v. Daniel L. McCollum

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2005-09-20

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POSNER, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff, Lauth, a police officer in the Chicago suburb of LaGrange Park, sued his police chief, McCollum, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . The suit charged that McCollum (and the Village, but it’s been dropped as a defendant) had deprived Lauth of the equal protection of the laws by asking the Village’s Board of Police Co…

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