Legal Opinion
Spiering v. City of Madison
District Court, D. South Dakota
Decided August 1, 1994No. Civ. 92-4078PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
PIERSOL, District Judge.
Plaintiff Thomas Spiering brings this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action claiming that defendants violated his First Amendment rights when they demoted him from the position of police captain. The Court took the case under advisement following a bench trial that concluded on Wednesday, July 20, 1994.
I. Findings of Fact
Plaintiff is now sixty years old. He finished eighth grade and went to work on the family farm. He-completed a GED certificate in 1966, but he has no other formal education. He has been married forty years and has two grown children and…
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