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PAPPAS v. GIULIANI

Docket No. 00-9487.

290 F.3d 143 (2002)

Thomas PAPPAS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Rudolph GIULIANI, Mayor of the City of New York and Howard Safir, Commissioner of the Police Department of the City of New York, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: May 13, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher T. Dunn, Amicus Curiae New York Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY, (Arthur Eisenberg on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Rosemary Carroll, Carroll & Friess, New York, NY, on the brief for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Margaret King, for Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, NY, (Edward F.X. Hart, Bryan D. Glass, Marta Ross, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before LEVAL, SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, and McMAHON, District Judge.

LEVAL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal raises the question whether a municipal police department may, without violating the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech, terminate a police officer by reason of the officer's anonymous dissemination of bigoted racist anti-black and anti-semitic materials. Appellant Thomas Pappas brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against officials of the City of New York and the New York City Police Department (N.Y.PD) alleging...

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