By: Derek Hawkins//May 12, 2020//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: Dixon O’Brien, et al., v. Village of Lincolnshire
Case No.: 19-1349
Officials: ROVNER, SCUDDER, and ST. EVE, Circuit Judges.
Focus: 14th Amendment Violation – Equal Protection Clause
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 claims under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) and declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over their remaining state law claims. We affirm.
Affirmed