On May 9, 1996, Soulsby made a speech at the District's Ballou High School in which he claimed that the backlog of 123 unsolved cases involving African-American women had only been discovered after O'Donnell and Hennessy had been transferred out of their jobs. You have funeral questions, we have answers. It claims that this renders him a "key deputy" under Hall. Henrik Larsson described the match as "a sad occasion but at the same time it's a kind of celebration for everything." Phillip "Phil" O'Donnell (25 March 1972 - 29 December 2007) was a Scottish football player. Subscribe for more!Leave a comment below with your thoughts.Want more? When he returned, in September 1995, he learned that he was to be transferred to a less responsible position, that of Commander of the Property Division. Getting Started | Contributor Zone . eBay. He asked what color the cat was and when I said black he told me to call it Sambuca. O'Donnell then spent several months off the job because of a heart condition. Lumenpulse, the architectural LED-based lighting solutions company, has appointed Phil O'Donnell as the Vice President of Sales for the Asia-Pacific Region. Our work in landmark, commercial, industrial and domestic architecture provides the background . O'Donnell began his career with the Police Department almost three decades ago, in 1969. 1 Give It All We Got Tonight, No. First, the District rightly argues, and the district court correctly agreed, that because of the special degree of trust and discipline required in a police force there may be a stronger governmental interest in regulating the speech of police officers than in regulating the speech of other governmental employees. But O'Donnell has presented no concrete evidence (and the circumstances do not demonstrate) that he would have done dramatically better on the job market in the absence of his demotion. Many of the facts he recounts are fiercely contested by the defendants; however, because the plaintiff's claims must be taken as true on a motion to dismiss, and the facts on the basis of which the district court granted summary judgment are not contested, we assume them to be true for purposes of the appeal as well. Last time I was out in Baltimore was for a skatepark fundraiser. Sevilla director of football Monchi said, "This is terrible news. And, although the conversation raised some issues about Soulsby's veracity, it did not touch on the more serious issues surrounding the Soulsby-Hennessy pact. He died after suffering cardiac arrest while playing for Motherwell against Dundee United on 29 December 2007, aged 35. Requiring a demotion or firing to trigger a defamation claim also helps to limit the scope of permissible due process claims to a small set of truly serious claims, thus limiting the constitutionalization of tort law. Officially making the move in 1994, O'Donnell worked as a musician, playing guitar with many artists including Craig Morgan, Jeff Carson, Kevin Denney, Johnny Lee, and Sherrie Austin. People named Philip ODonnell. I can honestly say when I heard the news on the radio, a shiver went down my spine.'. Motherwell have dealt with. At this stage we do not have all the facts surrounding the tragic death of Phil O'Donnell. See, e.g., Connick, 461 U.S. at 148, 103 S. Ct. 1684; Tao, 27 F.3d at 640; Stroman v. Colleton County School Dist., 981 F.2d 152, 157-58 (4th Cir. Robert C. Seldon, Washington, DC, argued the cause for appellant, with whom Joanne Royce was on the briefs. Id. The whole of Barna is remembering Paddy Gill this week who died on Wednesday after battling a tough illness while being constantly supported by his family. View the profiles of people named Phil ODonnell. Cynthia and I were so happy when he and Caroline announced their intention to marry, and it was so typical of Phil that he honored tradition by formally asking for our approval. Hennessy's bureau chief during the better part of the two years he spent as the commander of the homicide branch. The District notes that O'Donnell remained very senior in rank even after his transfer to the Property Division, and that he was a long-serving and experienced officer whose words would be taken seriously within the Department. As the District points out, O'Donnell's letter presented a substantial risk of harming his relationship with Soulsby and injuring Police Department morale and discipline. But if the letter is read as a commentary on the believability of recent statements by Hennessy and Soulsby, it might have more significance. Interment private. Government action that has the effect of "seriously affect [ing], if not destroy [ing]" a plaintiff's ability to pursue his chosen profession, Kartseva, 37 F.3d at 1529 (quoting Greene v. McElroy, 360 U.S. 474, 492, 79 S. Ct. 1400, 3 L. Ed. It is quite clear that O'Donnell's initial position as head of the Investigative Services Bureau was in this category; in that position, he was in charge of numerous key operational offices of the Police Department, and one of seven members of the Police Department's Executive Committee, its principal policymaking body. Since then this number, although not retired, has not been issued to any subsequent player. To begin with, the stigma associated with O'Donnell's demotion was less severe than that attached to Kartseva's disqualification. 2d 708 (1983), the Court considered the case of an employee of the New Orleans District Attorney's office, who, dissatisfied with her impending transfer, circulated a questionnaire that asked a series of general questions about levels of office morale and the confidence employees had in their supervisors. And, as to the discipline and morale of the Police Department, the frequent media criticism of the Department's (and Soulsby's) performance in the weeks preceding O'Donnell's letter had doubtless already taken its toll. [4] O'Donnell began his career with his local team, making his first team debut in the 199091 season against St Mirren and soon became a regular first team player. 1995) (finding that a police department permissibly demoted a sergeant for sending a confrontational letter to another police department on official letterhead without first clearing the letter with the chief of police, as required by police department policy). This conversation implicated a number of broader policy issues, including questions about whether Soulsby had been right to transfer Hennessy and O'Donnell to less responsible positions and about what caused the backlog and how it was detected. Turning to O'Donnell's exchange with Soulsby after the Ballou High School speech, O'Donnell says that he told Soulsby that it was not true that the 123 unsolved murders only came to light after O'Donnell and Hennessy were transferred, and reminded him that Soulsby himself had opposed an investigation. See, e.g., Tyler v. City of Mountain Home, 72 F.3d 568, 570 (8th Cir. 2. O'Donnell, who won one Scotland cap, began his career with Motherwell as a 17-year-old and rejoined the club in 2004 after spells with Celtic and Sheffield Wednesday. You didn't let me fade away when I went away to college and always managed to find me for good times on both coasts. We begin with the governmental interests. One of our family's fondest memories of Katy's wedding, years later, was having Phil's company in a room otherwise full of womenPhil was declared an honorary bridesmaid that night just so we could all laugh and philosophize together into the wee hours. The match was between a Celtic side drawn from their 1998 title-winning squad and a Motherwell side drawn from their 1991 Scottish Cup win. Liked by Philip O'Donnell. [11] His funeral was on 4 January, at St Mary's Church in Hamilton. [20], Thousands of tributes from around the world were posted on the Internet. This opinion does not foreclose O'Donnell from seeking to file an amended complaint, especially given that neither the district court nor the parties previously focused on the complaint's inadequacies, We reject the District's claim that O'Donnell's due process claims should be denied because he did not expressly seek a name-clearing hearing. We find that there was a substantial public concern with the subject matter of both the letter to the editor and the conversation about the Ballou High School speech, and that the fact that O'Donnell may have acted partly on the basis of personal motivations makes no difference. The report also criticized the Mayor's poor response to the scandal surrounding the Soulsby-Hennessy agreement, and said that senior executives in the Homicide Branch believed that the reassignment of Captain Hennessy was unjustified and had damaged the Police Department. Saturday, December 29, 2007. As to this claim, we remand to permit the district court to determine, on the basis of a more complete record, what the significance of O'Donnell's references to the "credibility" of Hennessy and Soulsby would have been to an informed member of the public at the time O'Donnell wrote his letter, and in turn to decide to what degree the letter touched on a topic of public concern and hence weighed against the government's interest in O'Donnell's silence. The district court dismissed O'Donnell's First Amendment claims before any record had been developed, and indeed before the District filed an answer. "[15] On 31 December the SPL postponed the Celtic v Rangers fixture scheduled for 2 January 2008, following a request by O'Donnell's former club Celtic, which was agreed by Rangers. In his new position, O'Donnell reported to the then Assistant Chief of Police for the Patrol Services Bureau, Larry Soulsby; Soulsby, in turn, reported directly to the Chief of Police. "[22][23], Motherwell announced the Main Stand at Fir Park would be renamed the "Phil O'Donnell Stand" as a permanent tribute[24] and his team-mates paid their own personal tribute by having his signature embroidered on their strips for the remainder of the 200708 season. [21] The club received hundreds of written tributes from fans as far as Korea and Ukraine, as well as many emotional messages from Sevilla FC, comparing O'Donnell's death to the similar fate of their player Antonio Puerta that August. Id. There just is no replacing you. His job seems to have had some policy responsibilities; he was in charge of a number of Police Department facilities, and his complaint describes several reforms he instituted in their operations, seemingly on his own initiative. Philip O'Donnell (25 March 1972 29 December 2007) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Motherwell, Celtic and Sheffield Wednesday. Hennessy is a "cop's cop"; he is a true leader. O'Donnell, who won one Scotland cap, began his career with Motherwell as a 17-year-old and rejoined the club in 2004 after spells with Celtic and Sheffield Wednesday. There were many demands for Hennessy and Soulsby to release the tape. O'Donnell also says that he had intended to seek out a job as chief of police of a large city, but that his demotion "irreparably stigmatized" him in "the close-knit world of chiefs of police of large cities and municipalities and eliminated him from any real consideration for positions such as these." 1995) (concluding that a firing without any associated public statements is not actionable).