Kapsalis v. Board of Fire & Police Commissioners

Plaintiffs, James Kapsalis and John Marozas, where discharged from their jobs as police officers in the city of Burbank police force without prior notice or a hearing. The city of Burbank, its board of fire and police commissioners, and individual commissioners, all defendants in this action, now appeal from the circuit court’s order remanding the cause to the board for a new determination. The parties have stipulated that all the facts that apply to plaintiff Kapsalis also apply to plaintiff Marozas.

Before 1982, the city of Burbank had no police force of its own and had contracted to have…