KALLSTROM v. CITY OF COLUMBUS

No. 96-3853.

136 F.3d 1055 (1998)

Officer Melissa KALLSTROM, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF COLUMBUS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 12, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirk L. Somers (briefed), Daniel F. Marinik, Marshall & Melhorn, Toledo, OH, Richard M. Kerger (argued), Kerger & Kerger, Toledo, OH, for Melissa Kallstrom.

Kirk L. Somers (briefed), Daniel F. Marinik, Marshall & Melhorn, Toledo, OH, Richard M. Kerger, Kerger & Kerger, Toledo, OH, for Thomas Coelho.

Kirk L. Somers, Daniel F. Marinik, Marshall & Melhorn, Toledo, OH, Richard M. Kerger, Kerger & Kerger, Toledo, OH, for Gary Householder.

Glenn B. Redick (argued and briefed), Columbus City Attorney's Office, Civil Division, Columbus, OH, for City of Columbus.

Before: KRUPANSKY, SILER, and MOORE, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

MOORE, Circuit Judge.

We are called upon in this appeal to consider whether the plaintiffs, undercover officers for the Columbus Police Department, have a privacy interest of a constitutional dimension in certain personal information contained in their personnel files. We hold that the plaintiffs do indeed have a constitutionally protected privacy interest under the substantive component of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. Accordingly...

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