Legal Opinion
Fitzgerald v. Nations
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided October 28, 1980No. 41790PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Presiding Judge.
Edward Fitzgerald appeals from the order of the trial court affirming the action of the St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioners which had in turn affirmed the action of the Superintendent of Police in terminating Fitzgerald as a St. Louis County police officer. We affirm.
The facts which form the basis for the termination are undisputed. Sometime in July, 1976, Fitzgerald posted a notice on the bulletin board in the First Precinct, where he was stationed. The notice took issue with certain comments to the press by Major Bergauer that no “quota system”1 existed in…
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- Arnett v. KennedySupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Parker v. LevySupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Roger W. Jenson v. T. O. Olson, James Gooley, Arnold A. Matta, and H. v. Jensen, Thomas Kachelmacher, Glen Galles and John BurmeisterCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1965
- Giessow v. LitzMissouri Court of Appeals · 1977
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- Medvik v. OllendorffMissouri Court of Appeals · 1989