Legal Opinion
Robert I. Moore v. Charles Otero, Individually and as Chief of Police, City of Tampa, Florida, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 12, 1977No. 75-4417PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal, we consider a police officer’s contention that his transfer from corporal to police patrolman deprived him of “liberty” or “property,” vesting him with a right under the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment to a hearing on the charge that provoked the transfer. The district court granted summary judgment for the City of Tampa, and the plaintiff appeals. We affirm.
At the time of the district court’s ruling, the plaintiff, Robert Moore, was a sixteen-year veteran of the City of Tampa police, having joined the force in 1959. Moore served from 1970 to…
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