Legal Opinion
Vorbeck v. Schnicker
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 1, 1981No. 80-1982PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.
The St. Louis Police Officers Association and several individual members of the St. Louis Police Department (appellants) brought this action for injunctive and declaratory relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 2201 et seq., alleging that certain provisions of the personnel regulations of the St. Louis Police Department are unconstitutional.
None of the individual plaintiffs has been disciplined under the regulations in question. They sue on the basis that the regulations are vague and overbroad and that they unnecessarily chill the officers’…
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