Dixon v. Holden

LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

This appeal concerns the ability of a judgment creditor to collect, from the state under the State Legal Expense Fund, § 105.711— 105.726, RSMo (1994), 1 for the acts of two fellow state employees who violated the plaintiffs civil rights.

Respondent Oliver Dixon, a former trooper of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, sued two superior officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) in federal court for violating his constitutional rights under color of state law. Dixon sued the officers because they failed to take action after learning that Dixon’s work phone at patrol headquarters…