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DORA SAUCEDO-FALLS, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
DAVID KUNKLE; RANDY HAMPTON; CITY OF DALLAS, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 07-11177.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Filed November 6, 2008.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, No. 3:05-CV-730.
Before: WIENER, GARZA, and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.*
Plaintiff-Appellant Dora Saucedo-Falls (the "Plaintiff") was employed as an assistant chief of the Dallas Police Department (the "DPD"). Following her exposure, by an independent panel, of being "reluctant to investigate" a drug scandal in one of the divisions of the DPD over which she served as the highest ranking supervisor other than the chief of police, she was demoted and returned to her prior civil service rank of lieutenant.She claims that this demotion (1) violated her procedural and substantive due process rights under, and the Equal Protection Clause guarantees of, the Fourteenth Amendment, (2) was a violation of Title VII, and (3) constituted unlawful retaliation.The district court granted the motion for summary judgment filed by the Defendants-Appellees David Kunkle, Randy Hampton, and the City of Dallas, Texas (collectively, the "Defendants"). This...