Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit September 20, 2005, 04-3782 (Chester A. Lauth v. Daniel L. McCollum)

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, Lauth, a police officer in the Chicago suburb of LaGrange Park, sued his police chief, McCollum, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The suit charged that McCollum (and the Village, but it’s been dropped as a defendant) had deprived Lauth of the equal protection of the laws by asking the Village’s Board of Police Commissioners to sanction him for misfeasance.