Smith v. City of Cincinnati

On May 5, 1987, plaintiffs-appellants, nine police officers holding ranks below that of sergeant in the Cincinnati Police Division, 1 filed a complaint for declaratory judgment in the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas alleging that defendants-appellees had violated certain provisions of the consent decree entered August 13, 1981, in United States of America v. City of Cincinnati, Civil No. C-l-80-369, by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division. Appellants claimed that as a result of appellees’ violations of the consent decree, specifically, the…