7th Circuit: VISTA Worker With Sex Book May Proceed With Claim Over Firing

Mealey's (December 11, 2019, 8:24 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — A Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program worker who was fired by the Indiana Army National Guard after her supervisor discovered she published a book about her time as a phone-sex operator may proceed with a 42 U.S. Code Section 1983 claim against a program director, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Dec. 3, finding that the National Guard supervisor carried out the firing under the color of state law (Amy Harnishfeger v. United States, et al., No. 18-1865, 7th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 35879)....