VORBECK v. WHALEY

No. 79-1926.

620 F.2d 191 (1980)

William J. VORBECK, Appellant, v. Donald H. WHALEY, Clarence Hunter, Suzanne Hart, John Schicker, James F. Conway, as the Board of St. Louis Police Commissioners of the City of St. Louis, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence J. Fleming (on brief), London, Greenberg & Fleming, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

William W. Cody (on brief), McMahon, Berger, Breckenridge, Hanna, Linihan & Cody, St. Louis, Mo., for appellees.

Before HEANEY and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, and SACHS, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Appellant William J. Vorbeck, a sergeant in the St. Louis Metropolitan police department, was publicly censured by the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners on May 12, 1976. The censure was the result of Sergeant Vorbeck's earlier public assertions that Colonel Theodore McNeal, President of the Board of Police Commissioners, had lied in a public meeting.

In June of 1976, Vorbeck responded to the censure by filing a complaint in the Circuit Court...

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