PEREZ v. CUCCI

Civ. A. No. 86-3595.

725 F.Supp. 209 (1989)

Abad PEREZ, Plaintiff, v. Anthony CUCCI, as Mayor of Jersey City, and Individually; the City of Jersey City; Walter Adams, as Director of Police and Individually; Jaime Vazquez, as City Councilman and Individually, Benjamin Lopez, as City Business Administrator and Individually, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

May 2, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ignacio Perez, Jersey City, N.J., for plaintiff.

Raymond Reddington, Asst. Corp. Counsel, City of Jersey City, Jersey City, N.J., for defendants.


OPINION

HAROLD A. ACKERMAN, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

The issue in this case, following a fifteen day bench trial, is whether the civil rights of plaintiff, Abad Perez, a former Jersey City Police Officer, were violated when he was demoted from the rank of plainclothes detective to uniformed patrolman because he had openly espoused the candidacy of a mayoral incumbent who was defeated in his bid for reelection in 1985.1...

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