Charles A. Gulden and Richard R. Sage v. Monroe McCorkle and George Dickerson

RANDALL, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-Appellants Charles Gulden and Richard Sage appeal from an adverse decision of the trial court in their suit against Defendants-Appellees Monroe McCorkle, Director of the Dallas Public Works Department (the “Department”), George Dickerson, Assistant Director, and the City of Dallas, Texas (hereinafter collectively the “Defendants”). Sage and Gulden were discharged 1 as employees of the Department after they refused to submit to polygraph exams requested by their Department superiors. They sued for reinstatement to their jobs and for damages. Gulden and Sage…