5th Circuit: Officer’s Claims Over Suspension After Facebook Posts Were Untimely

( November 7, 2024, 8:18 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A police officer who sued four police chiefs and the city that employed him alleging that his suspension over Facebook posts constituted First Amendment violations under 42 U.S. Code Section 1983 failed to show that the clock on his claims was stalled while he challenged his suspension or that the applicable one-year prescriptive period was interrupted by two state court petitions, the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, affirming a trial court’s judgment....