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WHALEN v. CITY OF ATLANTA

Civ. A. Nos. C80-1508A, C80-1583A.

539 F.Supp. 1202 (1982)

Howard L. WHALEN, George Elliott and Edward Eugene Perkins, Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF ATLANTA, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

June 3, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. M. Garland and Joseph F. Page, Garland, Nuckolls, Kadish, Martin & Catts, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

Marva Jones Brooks, W. Roy Mays, III and Flora B. Devine, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants.

ORDER

ROBERT H. HALL, District Judge.

These consolidated cases are civil rights actions brought by police lieutenants seeking damages against defendants, city officials, who are alleged to have unconstitutionally demoted plaintiffs from their former positions as police captains. The actions are brought under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988.

The background of the litigation is that in 1975, plaintiffs Perkins, Elliott and Whalen were Atlanta...

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