MORTON v. BECKER

No. 85-1673.

793 F.2d 185 (1986)

Wayne MORTON, Appellant, v. Dennis BECKER and John Berner, Chief of Police, and Homer Sayad, Charles Valier, Thomas Purcell, Dr. Jerome Williams and Vincent Schoemehl, individually as members of the Board of Police Commissioners, St. Louis, Missouri, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 6, 1986.

Rehearing Denied July 7, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Elizabeth Kaslick, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Michelle C. Clay, St. Louis, Mo., for appellees.

Before McMILLIAN and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges, and MURPHY, District Judge.


JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Wayne Morton appeals from the district court's dismissal of his suit brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982), against Dennis Becker, a City of St. Louis police officer, John Berner, City of St. Louis Police Chief, and named members of the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners,1 for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. We affirm the district...

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