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- Title: Jurgensen v. Fairfax County
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Release Date : January 04, 1984
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 96 KB
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RUSSELL, CIRCUIT JUDGE This is a § 1983, 42 U.S.C. action, brought by an employee of the Fairfax County (Virginia) Police Department, seeking injunctive and declaratory relief as well as damages and restoration of position. The defendants are the County of Fairfax, its Police Department, and two of its ranking police officers. According to his complaint, the plaintiff Jurgensen had been demoted in rank by the defendants ""in reprisal of . . . [his] whistle-blowing"" consisting of ""provid[ing] the [Washington] Post with a copy of the [audit] Report"" of the defendants on the internal operations of the Police Department's Emergency Operations Center (EOC).1 The defendants by their answer set up various defenses, the main defenses being absence of any free speech violation and the rendering of the controversy moot by the plaintiff's acceptance of the demotion. The defendants moved for summary judgment but the district court denied such motion. The cause then proceeded to trial before a jury. Thejury returned a verdict for the plaintiff and judgment followed. The defendants have appealed that judgment and we reverse.