Legal Opinion

Bruner v. Baker

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Decided October 30, 2007No. 04-6396PublishedCited by 83 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

O’BRIEN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Bobby Bruner was investigated by the Oklahoma Tax Commission (OTC) for tax fraud. The OTC filed criminal charges against Bruner which were voluntarily dismissed by the prosecuting attorney. Bruner filed this civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 against Vernon Baker and Johnnie Ford, investigators in the OTC’s Special Tax Enforcement Unit, their supervisor Mary Hanson, and the OTC’s assistant general counsel, Kim Ashley. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of all defendants. We exercise jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and AFFIRM.

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