Legal Opinion
Dixon v. International Brotherhood of Police Officers
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 28, 2007No. 06-1210, 06-1211, 06-1212, 06-1851, 06-1852, 06-1918, 06-2094PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This appeal stems from an ugly incident of verbal abuse of a female police officer by her fellow male officers during a union-sponsored bus trip in the fall of 1998, as well as from the actions of the union and its members in response to the investigations of her complaints in the years that followed. The female officer, Vanessa Dixon, eventually brought a civil suit in federal court against the national union and its local chapter, their presidents, and two of the police officers involved in the incident, asserting claims of discrimination, retaliation, and defamation.…
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