Legal Opinion
Brenda Mattox and Dona Holly v. City of Forest Park Stephen Vollmar, Police Chief Ray Hodges and Kenneth Hughes
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 11, 1999No. 98-3379PublishedCited by 178 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Defendants in this case appeal the district court’s denial of qualified immunity to the individual defendants and argue for pendent appellate jurisdiction over the city in this civil rights action. The case arises from the issuance of a 690-page report— the result of extensive criminal and administrative investigations into the Forest Park Fire Department. In the proceedings below, the magistrate judge concluded (and the district court accepted) that one of the plaintiffs’ claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 — First Amendment retaliation— survives the qualified immunity…
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