RAYMON J. MELTON, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE/CROSS-APPELLANT,
v.
CITY OF OKLAHOMA CITY, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, LLOYD A. GRAMLING, CHIEF OF POLICE FOR THE CITY OF OKLAHOMA CITY, GERALD L. EMMETT, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF POLICE FOR THE CITY OF OKLAHOMA CITY, MARVIN MAXWELL, MAJOR, OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, WILLIAM R. CHAMBLESS, MAJOR, OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, CARL SMITH, LIEUTENANT, OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, ROBERT TAYLOR, LIEUTENANT, OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, DAVID MCBRIDE, LIEUTENANT, OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND PAULA HEARN, ASSISTANT TO THE CITY MANAGER, DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS/CROSS-APPELLEES

10th Cir. | 1989-11-03
Nos. 85-1738 to 85-1742 and 85-1811
Before HOLLOWAY, Chief Judge, McKAY, LOGAN, SEYMOUR, MOORE, ANDERSON, TACHA, BALDOCK, BRORBY and EBEL, Circuit Judges, and SAFFELS, District Judge .
888 F.2d 724 United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (1989) Negative Treatment
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The court denied petitions for rehearing but granted rehearing en banc on specific issues concerning jury instructions and the right to a name-clearing hearing.


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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

Before HOLLOWAY, Chief Judge, McKAY, LOGAN, SEYMOUR, MOORE, ANDERSON, TACHA, BALDOCK, BRORBY and EBEL, Circuit Judges, and SAFFELS, District Judge *. PER CURIAM.

Before the court are defendants’-appellants’ petitions for rehearing with suggestion for rehearing en banc. Upon a vote of the panel members, see 879 F. 2d 706, the petitions for rehearing are denied. A majority of the court’s active judges, however, agree to rehear these cases en banc limited to the following issues:

1. Whether the district court committed plain error in instructing the jury that a liberty interest may be violated by charges which “would stigmatize the employee’s reputation or foreclose future employment opportunities”?

2. Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that before a liberty interest may be infringed, the charges must be found to be false?

3. Whether the plaintiff was entitled to a name-clearing hearing complete with the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses before the disciplinary review board, assuming dissemination of the perjury charges deprived plaintiff of a liberty interest?

4. Further assuming plaintiff is entitled to some sort of a hearing, need it be pre-termination, or would some post-termination hearing or name-clearing opportunity be adequate?

The clerk of court is hereby directed to enter the appropriate briefing and oral argument schedule.

SO ORDERED.


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