Years ago Sgt John Northen made famous "Exam Scam" - Did it happen again??? Chicago Sun-Time Michael Sneed: Could high scores on (Chicago Police) lieutenant’s exam be cheating? (When it is by high ranking relatives / spouses)

The eraser set . . .

It’s confidential. It’s shocking.

Sources tell Sneed an ongoing internal Chicago Police Department probe — which has been affixed a “confidential” complaint registry number — centers on alleged cheating on the CPD’s lieutenant’s exam.

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United States Court of Appeals,Seventh Circuit.

(Chicago police sergeant) John W. NORTHEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

No. 97-1245.

    Decided: October 8, 1997

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and MANION and EVANS, Circuit Judges. Rick Halprin (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant. Lawrence Rosenthal, Mardell Nereim (argued), Benna R. Solomon, Eileen B. Libby, Susan S. Sher, Office of the Corporation Counsel, Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

This case follows a common modern pattern.   A public employee has a dispute with his employer, and loses his job or suffers some other adverse personnel action.   He brings a blunderbuss civil rights case under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against everyone in sight, seeking improbable millions of dollars in damages ($7 million here).   The defendants pick through the lengthy complaint, here in its sixth redaction with 79 paragraphs in 33 pages, hoping the plaintiff has pleaded himself out of court.   They move to dismiss under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6).   The motion is granted, and the appeal follows.

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