Legal Opinion
Kocher v. Larksville Borough
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided February 20, 2013No. Civil Action No. 3:CV-11-2053PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
A. RICHARD CAPUTO, District Judge.
Presently before the Court is Defendants Larksville Borough, Joseph Zawadski, Tony Kopko, and John Pekarovsky’s (collectively “Defendants”) Motion for Summary Judgment. (Doc. 56.) Plaintiff Scott E. Kocher, a former Larksville Borough police officer, claims that he was retaliated against in violation of his First Amendment rights, deprived of a protected *587Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest, defamed, and cast in a false light following a confrontation with the Borough Mayor in August 2010. Because Kocher did not speak as a citizen on a matter of…
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