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FLYNN v. GIARRUSSO

Civ. A. No. 70-3570.

321 F.Supp. 1295 (1971)

Van H. FLYNN v. Clarence B. GIARRUSSO, Superintendent of Police of the City of New Orleans, Bernard B. Levy, Chief Administrative Officer of the City of New Orleans, the Honorable Moon Landrieu, Mayor of the City of New Orleans, and the City of New Orleans.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

January 25, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irwin R. Sanders, James R. Sutterfield, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Charles C. Foti, Jr., Charles Ward, Asst. City Attys., New Orleans, La., for defendants.

HEEBE, District Judge:

The plaintiff, Van H. Flynn, a lieutenant of the New Orleans Police Department, was suspended from the force for writing an article critical of the police administration. In the article, entitled "Who's Shaking the Political Plum Tree?????" Lt. Flynn claimed that (1) parking spaces in the police complex were reserved for "sacred cows" instead of on-duty policemen required to testify in the adjoining court building and that (2) the men of the...

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