Legal Opinion
Moses v. Town of Wytheville
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided March 21, 1997No. Civil Action No. 96-0106-APublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JONES, District Judge.
A former police officer challenges a municipal regulation which required him to resign from the police force in order to become a candidate for partisan elective public office. I find that the rule is not unconstitutional as applied to the plaintiff and grant summary judgment in favor of the defendants.
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Steven J. Moses, a police officer employed by the Town of Wytheville, Virginia, decided in 1995 to seek election as sheriff of Bland County. The rules of conduct of the police department, adopted in 1992, restricted political activity by police officers, and in…
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