Legal Opinion
Hill v. City of Scranton
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 9, 2005No. 02-3833, 02-3988, 03-1377PublishedCited by 243 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROTH, Circuit Judge.
Since 1980, the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, has maintained an ordinance requiring city employees to reside within the city. In 1997, a group of twenty-two police officers sought to have the ordinance declared unconstitutional. The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed the suit and we affirmed. After an investigation in 2000, the city terminated four of these officers, as well as a police mechanic, who was not a party to the 1997 suit, for failing to comply with the ordinance. The terminated officers brought a new suit, alleging…
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