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REEDER v. KANSAS CITY BD. OF POLICE COM'RS

No. 85-1893.

796 F.2d 1050 (1986)

Mark REEDER, Appellee, v. KANSAS CITY BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS; Larry L. Joiner; Arthur D. Brookfield, III; John L. Williams; Beverly Parks Barker; Richard L. Berkeley; and William Birt, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 21, 1986.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied August 28, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Emmett Logan, Kansas City, Mo., for appellants.

Michael W. Manners, Independence, Mo., for appellee.

Before ROSS, Circuit Judge, HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 28, 1986.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

This case is a challenge, under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, to a Missouri statute which prohibits members of the Kansas City Police Force from participating in or contributing money to political causes and campaigns. No such drastic prohibition on political activity applies to police in other Missouri cities. In an earlier appeal to this Court, Reeder...

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