George Davis v. City of Chicago and Alexander Vroustouris

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a purported distinction between the city’s personnel board and the city itself is a “distinction without a difference. The Personnel Board is part of Chicago and acted on the City’s behalf; it is not a separate legal entity.”
• “Like other states, Illinois precludes sequential pursuit not only of legal theories actually litigated, but also of those that could have been litigated, in the first action.”
• “Davis split his claim for his own reasons .... That is an understandable strategy, but not a good reason for foisting two suits on the judicial system and his adversary. Having made a tactical choice ..., Davis must accept the consequences.”
• “[T]he Constitution does not forbid libel and slander.”
• “the Constitution does not forbid libel and slander”
• \the Constitution does not forbid libel and slander.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).