Legal Opinion
Sharpe v. Cureton
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 13, 2003No. Nos. 00-5805, 00-6089, 00-6361 and 00-6362PublishedCited by 108 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FORESTER, Chief District Judge.
Immediately after being re-elected as Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, in September, 1995, Victor Ashe ordered Bruce Cureton, Fire Chief of the City of Knoxville, to transfer five Knoxville Fire Department firefighters to undesirable locations, ostensibly in retaliation for the firefighters’ support of Ashe’s opponent in the election. When these firefighters, Gary Sharpe (“Sharpe”), William Potter (“W.Potter”), Kenneth Scarbrough (“Scarbrough”), Frank Potter (“F.Potter”), and William McGinnis (“McGinnis”), were denied merit and bonus pay for 1995 and 1996,…
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