14th Amendment Violation Equal Protection Clause.

Byline: Derek Hawkins

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...