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SOLOMON v. ROYAL OAK TP.

No. 86-1955.

842 F.2d 862 (1988)

Odis SOLOMON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ROYAL OAK TOWNSHIP, a Municipal Corporation, and Tommy Staton, Defendants-Appellants, and Marie Turner, et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided March 15, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth L. Lewis (argued), Detroit, Mich., for defendants-appellants.

Glen N. Lenhoff (argued), Flint, Mich., Mark J. Kriger, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before MERRITT, KRUPANSKY and RYAN, Circuit Judges.

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

In this civil rights appeal under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 of the District Court's order, 656 F.Supp. 1254, to reinstate Odis Solomon, a former member of the Royal Oak Township Police Department, the central issue is whether appellants violated Solomon's First Amendment right to freedom of speech when they discharged him for informing a newspaper reporter about departmental corruption. In addition, Tommy Staton...

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