Legal Opinion
James D. O'COnnOr Jeannette C. O'COnnOr v. City of Newark City of Newark Police Department
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 13, 2006No. 05-2237PublishedCited by 304 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FISHER, Circuit Judge.
In this case we are asked to review the District Court’s grant of summary judgment to Newark, New Jersey, and its police department, on several claims arising from alleged retaliation against a police officer based on his assistance with a federal corruption probe. We will affirm.
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James O’Connor was a lieutenant in the Newark Police Department. He provided information to investigators in a federal corruption probe targeting the former Newark police director William Celester. Celester was convicted of embezzlement, and O’Connor alleges that, because of…
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