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BROWN v. CITY OF TRENTON

No. 87-1250.

867 F.2d 318 (1989)

Gerald R. BROWN; James Menna; Gregory Plagens; and Robert Menna, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The CITY OF TRENTON, a municipal corporation; George W. Mans, Jr., Mayor of the City of Trenton; and William Lilienthal, Chief of the Trenton Police Department, jointly and severally, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 9, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy P. Murphy (argued), Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs-appellants.

James I. DeGrazia, Robert G. Kamenec (argued), William B. Fitzgerald, Detroit, Mich., for defendants-appellees.

Before: NELSON and BOGGS, Circuit Judges, and ALLEN, District Judge.

DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

Reprimanded for publicly airing grievances associated with their police chief's perceived lack of support for an emergency response team of which they were members, four patrolmen employed by the City of Trenton, Michigan, sued the chief of police, the mayor, and the city under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for allegedly abridging their freedom of speech in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

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