Schend v. Thorson

I dissent.

The appellant-officer appeals from an adverse ruling of the district court and his principal issue on appeal is that the “Metropolitan Police Law” establishes his right to a hearing, as a probationary full-time officer, when charges have been made against him. As a secondary consideration appellant argues that these charges reflect on his good name and reputation, etc., in the community and therefore he is entitled to a hearing as a matter of procedural due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. He does not declare that the City published…