District Court, N.D. Illinois July 9, 2001, 01 C 0339 (Dickieson v. DER Travel Service, Inc.)

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BUCKLO, District Judge.

Richard Dickieson was vice president of operations for DER Travel Service from 1996 to 2000, when he was fired after— and, he says, because — he cooperated with a criminal antitrust investigation into DER’s possibly anticompetitive practices in Europe. He sued in Illinois state court, alleging violations of 42 U.S.C.