Zaffuto v. City of Hammond

CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:

Appellants, a police supervisor and his municipal employer, challenge a jury’s verdict that secretly recording and disclosing a personal phone call from appellee police officer to his wife violated the constitutional right to privacy and constituted an invasion-of-privacy tort under Louisiana law. On cross-appeal, the officer and his wife challenge the district court’s adverse summary judgment ruling on their Title VTI retaliation claim. We agree with the district court’s disposition of the Title VII claim. However, because one of the two possible theories under the…