Legal Opinion
Brandon Coker v. Julian Whittington
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 23, 2017No. 16-30679PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
The appellants are two former sheriffs deputies in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, who chose not to obey a directive from the Sheriff and were removed from their offices. Their disobedience arose from their decisions to move in with each other’s wife and family before getting divorced from their current wives. Whether these decisions, which violated the Sheriffs Code of Conduct, infringed on appellants’ constitutional rights, and whether the Code’s policies conform to the Constitution were decided against them. We AFFIRM.
The material facts are undisputed. 1 When Chief…
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