Legal Opinion
Thompson v. City of Clio
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided May 2, 1991No. Civ. A. 90-T-908-NPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff Gene Thompson, a member of Clio, Alabama’s city council, has brought this civil rights action against the city, its mayor, Bobby R. Cox, its police chief, Robert Ramsey, and police officers David Hin-son and Richard Johnson, claiming that the defendants violated federal and state law by physically seizing his tape recorder during one city council meeting and forcibly removing him from another. Thompson rests his federal claims on the first and fourth amendments to the United States Constitution, as enforced through 42 U.S. C.A. § 1983 (West 1981),…
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