Legal Opinion
Shows v. Morgan
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided March 17, 1999No. Civ.A. 98-T-914-NPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
Plaintiff W. David Shows, who is white, has brought this lawsuit against three defendants: the Town of Hayneville, Alabama; the town’s mayor, Joe Eddie Morgan, an African-American; and one of the town’s police officers, Gerald Tippins, who is also an African-American. Shows alleg es that the defendants conspired to deprive him of his civil rights by refusing to appoint him permanently as Police Chief of Hayneville because of his race, and by conducting a defamatory campaign against him, culminating in his wrongful removal from the position of Acting…
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