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SOILEAU v. ZERANGUE

Civ. A. No. 81-0855.

553 F.Supp. 845 (1982)

Millard J. SOILEAU, et al. v. Howard ZERANGUE, Individually and as Sheriff of St. Landry Parish, La.

United States District Court, W.D. Louisiana, Lafayette-Opelousas Division.

December 28, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony G. Terracina, Dwight Reed, Opelousas, La., for plaintiffs.

Frank P. Trosclair, Jr., Opelousas, La., Emile C. Rolfs, III, Baton Rouge, La., for defendants.

OPINION

SHAW, District Judge.

The plaintiffs in this action are eight former deputies of the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Department. The defendant is the incumbent sheriff, Howard Zerangue. Plaintiffs brought this action under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985, 1986 and 1988 alleging that Sheriff Zerangue violated their civil rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution when he did not reappoint them as deputy sheriffs...

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