Legal Opinion
Macklin v. City of New Orleans
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 31, 2002No. 01-31039PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Per curiam
In this civil rights case, a dismissed police officer appeals the district court’s entry of summary judgment against him. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the judgment of the district court and order appellant and his counsel to show cause why they should not be sanctioned for making frivolous arguments on appeal.
I
Appellant Albert Macklin (“Macklin”) served as a police officer in the New Orleans Police Department (the “Department”) until his dismissal from the force after a January 28, 1998 off duty incident in which he struck a man over the head with his police baton. Although at the…
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