FIELDS v. CITY OF TULSA

No. 12-5218.

753 F.3d 1000 (2014)

Paul Campbell FIELDS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF TULSA; Charles W. Jordan, individually and in his official capacity as Chief of Police, Tulsa Police Department; Alvin Daryl Webster, individually and in his official capacity as Deputy Chief of Police, Tulsa Police Department, Defendants-Appellees. American Civil Liberties Union; American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

May 22, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Joseph Muise , American Freedom Law Center, Ann Arbor, MI, ( Scott Wood , Wood, Puhl & Wood, PLLC, Tulsa, OK, and Erin Elizabeth Mersino , Thomas More Law Center, Ann Arbor, MI, with him on the briefs) for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Gerald M. Bender ( David O'Meilia , City Attorney, and Brandon J. Burris with him on the brief), Tulsa, OK, for Defendants-Appellees.

Daniel Mach and Heather L. Weaver , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Washington, D.C., Jennifer Lee , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, and Ryan Kiesell and Brady Henderson , American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, filed an amicus curiae brief for Defendants-Appellees.

Before HARTZ, TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges, and JACKSON, District Judge.


HARTZ, Circuit Judge.

Paul Fields, a captain in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, police department, filed a civil-rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Tulsa; Charles Jordan, the Chief of Police; and Alvin Daryl Webster, the Deputy Chief of Police (collectively, Defendants). The suit challenged his punishment for objecting to an order requiring him either to attend or to order subordinates to attend a law...

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