A pair of Louisiana sheriff’s deputies fired after swapping wives and moving in with their new families before divorcing their respective spouses have no constitutional claims based on their terminations (Coker v. Whittington, 2017 BL 142467, 5th Cir., No. 16-30679, 5/23/17).
A federal appeals court in New Orleans May 23 said deputies Brandon Coker and Michael Golden were lawfully terminated for disobeying the Bossier Parish sheriff’s directive that each cease living with a woman who wasn’t his legal spouse.
After Coker and Golden declined to change their living arrangements, Sheriff Julian Whittington fired them for breaching a departmental ...
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