482 F. Supp. 2d 36 - Curran v. Cousins’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Arnett v. Kennedy · Garcetti v. Ceballos · Waters v. Churchill
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“I wonder what it will take before one of the administrators gets the balls to stand up to the sheriff and do the right thing. How can a “man” allow all the evil that is unfairly being done to their people. I would think that out of the 320 administrators there would be one that had an ounce of integrity. How can you sit back and watch the unfairness of the discipline and harassement being doled out to political/union rivals of the sheriff and not stand up and say that it’s not right and try to stop it. The excuse of “I need my job to take care of my family” = crap. Look at the list of people that have taken the biggest hits, all are from the list of Murley supporters/ Union people — most were both. I won’t bother going through the list of names, but if you look at the comparison list of alleged violation vs punishment, you would see that Murly/Union people were harassed/punished much more severe. That’s wrong. A totaly unrelated history lesson (don’t want to get in trouble again) During WWII Adolf Hitler’s (whose motto was “ “Have no pity! Act brutally”), generals were deathly afraid of him, followed orders regardless of how immoral/wrong the orders were. Near the end, some of the generals realized just how wrong the orders were and started to plot against him knowing that the end was inevitable. Well you know how the story ended. My point is that the right thing is not always the easy thing. Stay strong my borthers/sisters and I’ll see you at the Union party. Joe C. Death be”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Curran v. Cousins
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