Legal Opinion
Ohland v. City of Montpelier
District Court, D. Vermont
Decided February 26, 1979No. Civ. A. 75-167PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
COFFRIN, District Judge.
In this action the plaintiff seeks money damages against the City of Montpelier, its police chief and city manager. The plaintiff alleges that rights guaranteed to him by the first and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution were violated by his discharge as a policeman on March 29, 1974. Plaintiff brought his claim against the individual defendants under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and its jurisdictional counterpart, 28 U.S.C. § 1343. His direct constitutional claim against the city was brought under the general federal question statute. 28 U.S.C. § 1331.…
2Cases cited77 opinions
- Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Board of Regents of State Colleges v. RothSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Scheuer v. RhodesSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Thomas Turpin v. Joseph MailetCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
- Robert Leslie Busche, Cross-Appellant v. Wallace E. Burkee, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1981
- Sabia v. StateSupreme Court of Vermont · 1995
- Piacitelli v. Southern Utah State CollegeUtah Supreme Court · 1981
- Paxman v. CampbellCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1980
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