Police Officer Has Partial Win In Attempt To Wear Cross Lapel Pin On his Uniform

Risk v. Burgettstown Borough, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70048 (WD PA, Sept. 21, 2007) involved religious discrimination and retaliatory discharge claims by a part-time Pennsylvania police officer who was ordered to stop wearing a small cross lapel pin on his uniform. A Pennsylvania federal district court dismissed plaintiff's First amendment speech and religion claims, but permitted plaintiff to move ahead with employment discrimination claims under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the PHRA, Pennsylvania's comparable anti-discrimination law.