Case: Individual Employment Rights/First Amendment (N.D. Ill.)

The Cook County Recorder of Deeds Office is entitled to partial summary judgment on claims of First Amendment political discrimination made by two system analysts alleging they were laid off based on their political affiliation with the office’s former recorder, an Illinois federal district court ruled. The court found that one system analyst couldn’t establish her political discrimination claim because she failed to provide sufficient evidence showing that the decision-makers who eliminated her position due to a reduction in force knew of her political affiliation or connection with the prior recorder. However, the fact that two of three decision-makers were ...