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POTTER v. MURRAY CITY

No. C-83-0174C.

585 F.Supp. 1126 (1984)

Royston POTTER, Plaintiff, v. MURRAY CITY, a Municipal corporation, Calvin G. Gillen, individually and as Chief of Police of Murray City, Murray City Civil Service Commission, the Honorable Scott M. Matheson, Governor of the State of Utah, the Honorable David L. Wilkinson, in his capacity as Attorney General of the State of Utah, State of Utah and the United States of America, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Utah, C.D.

April 27, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis V. Haslam and Donald J. Winder, Salt Lake City, Utah, for plaintiff Royston Potter.

Allan L. Larson and H. Craig Hall, Salt Lake City, Utah, for defendants Murray City, Calvin G. Gillen, and Murray City Civil Service Com'n.

Paul M. Tinker, Deputy Atty. Gen., Salt Lake City, Utah, for defendants Scott M. Matheson, Governor of the State of Utah, and David L. Wilkinson, Atty. Gen. of the State of Utah, and the State of Utah.

Brent D. Ward, U.S. Atty., Salt Lake City, Utah, and Drake Cutini, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant The United States of America.

MEMORANDUM DECISION ON MOTIONS

CHRISTENSEN, Senior District Judge.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

This case involves a civil rights claim for damages and declaratory and injunctive relief by a former police officer of Murray City who alleges that the termination of his employment because of his practice of plural marriage violated his right to the free exercise of his religion as protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the...

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