Retaliatory Termination – 1st Amendment

By: Derek Hawkins//March 9, 2016//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Mark Gekas v. Peter Vasiliades, et al.

Case No.: 15-1226

Officials: BAUER, FLAUM, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Retaliatory Termination – 1^st Amendment

Appellants fail to provide facts sufficient to form prima facie case for first amendment retaliation.

““As we have said before, summary judgment is the ‘put up or shut up’ moment in a lawsuit, when a party must show what evidence it has that would convince a trier of fact to accept its version of events.” Johnson v. Cambridge Indus., Inc., 325 F.3d 892, 901 (7th Cir. 2003) (internal quotation and citation omitted). GivenGekas’ complete inability to connect the events that happened to him in 2004 to the conversations he had in 1988, his First Amendment retaliation claims cannot withstand summary judgment.”

Affirmed

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