Legal Opinion
Livsey v. Salt Lake County
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 26, 2001No. 00-4005PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OBERDORFER, District Judge.
Norma Livsey, Kipp Livsey, and Kelly Livsey brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Salt Lake County and Jim Potter, a County police officer. The complaint alleged that the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights were infringed by a statement by Potter published in a local newspaper about the sexual behavior of a deceased member of the plaintiffs’ family and by the County’s failure to grant the plaintiffs’ request for a name-clearing hearing for the decedent. The district court dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim, and later denied the…
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