Legal Opinion
Briggs v. North Muskegon Police Department
District Court, W.D. Michigan
Decided May 5, 1983No. G80-96 CA6PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BENJAMIN F. GIBSON, District Judge.
This is an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking compensatory and punitive damages for the allegedly unlawful dismissal of plaintiff from his job as a police officer with the defendant police department. The parties are in agreement that the reason for the dismissal was that plaintiff, a married man, was cohabiting with a married woman not his wife. Plaintiff claims that the dismissal violated his associational and privacy rights protected by the United States Constitution, and that he was treated differently from other individuals who were…
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