Legal Opinion
Fields v. City of Tulsa
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided May 22, 2014No. 12-5218PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARTZ, Circuit Judge.
Paul Fields, a captain in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, police department, filed a civil-rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Tulsa; Charles Jordan, the Chief of Police; and Alvin Daryl Webster, the Deputy Chief of Police (collectively, Defendants). The suit challenged his punishment for objecting to an order requiring him either to attend or to order subordinates to attend a law-enforcement appreciation event hosted by the Islamic Society of Tulsa. (We refer to this order as the “Attendance Order.”) He claimed that the punishment violated the First…
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