Legal Opinion
Dixon v. McMullen
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided November 18, 1981No. Civ. A. 4-80-443PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
BELEW, District Judge.
This is a civil rights case. Plaintiff, a convicted ex-felon, who was pardoned twenty years later by the Governor of the State of Texas, alleges that his constitutional rights were abridged because he was denied certification as a police officer by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education. The trial was before this Court and lasted one day. The following findings of fact and conclusions of law are entered according to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 52(a) and 58.
I. Factual Background
These material facts are not in dispute:
2Cases cited87 opinions
- Younger v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Board of Regents of State Colleges v. RothSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Roe v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Paul v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Dandridge v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Furst v. New York City Transit AuthorityDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1986
- Gibson v. Barbe, Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)1995
- Payne v. FontenotDistrict Court, M.D. Louisiana · 1995
- Sandlin v. CRIM. JUST. STANDARD & TR. COMM'NDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1987
- Doe v. Utah Department of Public SafetyUtah Supreme Court · 1989
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