Legal Opinion
Loscombe v. City of Scranton
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 10, 2012No. Civil Action No. 3:10-CV-1182PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
A. RICHARD CAPUTO, District Judge.
Presently before me are two separate motions to dismiss by two separate groups of Defendants. (Docs. 34 and 39.) Pursuant to a Scranton City Ordinance, Plaintiff John Loscombe’s pension payments were suspended when he took a political position on the Scranton City Council. Because of this suspension, Loscombe argues that this Ordinance has violated his First Amendment rights of freedom of association, amounts to First Amendment retaliation, has effected a Fifth Amendment taking, has bypassed the substantive and procedural protections of the…
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