Lisle v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County

Police officers John Rex Lisle, Jason Beddoe, and Mike Mann (the “officers”) appeal the district court’s dismissal of their action against their employer, the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee (the “city”), and its chief of police, Emmett Turner (the “chief’), for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. The city had transferred the officers from positions as patrol officers to clerical postings in the police communication department, in response to newspaper reports of misconduct on the part of the officers. The city had also publicly made…