Legal Opinion
Dooley v. City of Philadelphia
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 6, 2001No. CIV.A. 99-2764PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
LOWELL A. REED, Jr., Senior District Judge.
Plaintiff Jeanette Dooley, a captain in the Philadelphia Police Department, claims that she was suspended, transferred, and effectively demoted because her testimony at a criminal trial irked her superiors. She brings this action under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985, and 1986, alleging that the actions taken against her by the police department and its officials violated her constitutional right to freedom of expression secured by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. She also asserts a number of state-law claims.…
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