Legal Opinion
Coday v. City of Springfield
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 31, 1991No. 90-1798PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
The City of Springfield, Missouri, passed an ordinance changing the job titles and prospectively affecting the pay grades of detectives employed in its police department. Appellees brought this lawsuit claiming that they were being deprived of a property interest in their jobs without due process of law. The district court granted their motion for summary judgment. We reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
On February 15, 1988, the Springfield City Council adopted General Ordinance No. 3896, which deleted the job titles of “Police Detective” and “Detective (Polygraph Examiner)” from the…
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