DIXON v. INTERNATIONAL BROTH. OF POLICE OFFICERS

Nos. 06-1210, 06-1211, 06-1212, 06-1851, 06-1852, 06-2094.

504 F.3d 73 (2007)

Vanessa DIXON, Plaintiff, Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF POLICE OFFICERS; International Brotherhood Of Police Officers, Local 382; John Leary, Defendants, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, Kenneth T. Lyons, Defendant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 28, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Monahan, III, with whom Thomas G. Freda and Monahan & Padellaro were on brief, for appellants and cross-appellees.

Ingra S. Bernstein, with whom Monica Pastorok, Rachel Stroup, and Zalkind, Rodriquez, Lint & Duncan LLP were on brief, for appellee/cross-appellant.

Before LYNCH, LIPEZ, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

This appeal stems from an ugly incident of verbal abuse of a female police officer by her fellow male officers during a union-sponsored bus trip in the fall of 1998, as well as from the actions of the union and its members in response to the investigations of her complaints in the years that followed. The female officer, Vanessa Dixon, eventually brought a civil suit in federal court against the national union and its local chapter, their presidents...

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