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OTTEN v. SCHICKER

No. 80-1710.

655 F.2d 142 (1981)

Walter R. OTTEN, Appellant, v. John SCHICKER; Suzanne Hart; James Crowe; James Conway as the Board of Police Commissioners of the City of St. Louis; Eugene J. Camp, Chief of Police, City of St. Louis, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 27, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Gilmore, Mark H. Neill (argued), St. Louis, Mo., Robert H. Dierker, Jr., Asst. City Counselor, St. Louis, Mo., for appellees.

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

Before HEANEY, STEPHENSON and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges.

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri upholding a St. Louis Police Department regulation that prohibits employees of the Department from running for elective public office. We affirm the judgment of the district court, 492 F.Supp. 455.

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On April 21, 1980, Walter Otten, a commissioned member of the St. Louis Police Department...

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