Plummer v. Shellhorn

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• off-duty drug involvement is valid reason for dismissal of police officer because officer has continuing duty to obey and enforce the criminal law, even when off duty
• “[a] police officer’s continuing duty to obey and enforce the criminal law, even when off duty, has been recognized in other case law and in certain statutes that impose duties on police officers without any ‘off-duty’ exception”
• request to take polygraph test must be for a lawful reason
• noting “higher standard of conduct” for police officers
• noting “higher standard of conduct” for police officers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).