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LATESSA v. NEW JERSEY RACING COM'N

No. 96-5316.

113 F.3d 1313 (1997)

Donato P. LATESSA; Victor R. Latessa, Appellants, v. NEW JERSEY RACING COMMISSION; Santo Lalomia, Individually and Officially as a Member of the New Jersey Racing Commission; Oliver R. Kovacs, Individually and Officially as a Member of the New Jersey Racing Commission; Stuart O. Goldsmith, Individually and Officially as a Member of the New Jersey Racing Commission; William E. McGlynn, Individually and Officially as a Member of the New Jersey Racing Commission; Daniel A. Monaco, Dr., Individually and Officially as a Member of the New Jersey Racing Commission; Frank Orechio, Individually and Officially as a Member of the New Jersey Racing Commission; Savino J. Russoniello, Jr., Individually and Officially as a Member of the New Jersey Racing Commission; Samuel M. Cannella, Individually and Officially as a Member of the New Jersey Racing Commission; Peter J. Cofrancesco, Jr., Individually and Officially as a Member of the New Jersey Racing Commission; Francesco Zanzuccki, Individually and as Director of the New Jersey Racing Commission; Michael Vukcevich, Individually and as Deputy Director of the New Jersey State Racing Commission, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided May 9, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

August R. Soltis (argued) Iulo & Rowek, Passaic, NJ, for Appellants.

Peter Verniero, Attorney General of New Jersey, Joseph L. Yannotti, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel, Jed M. Milstein, Deputy Attorney General, Pamela B. Katten (argued), Senior Deputy Attorney General, Trenton, NJ, for Appellees.

Before STAPLETON and MANSMANN, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge, Court of International Trade.

RESTANI, Judge.

("Commission") and various of its employees. Appellant challenges his non-reappointment as a racing judge following his criticism of Commission executives' actions in connection with penalty adjudication and his public testimony about the same. He alleges violation of his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights, his First Amendment free speech rights, and the New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act, N.J. Stat. Ann. § 34:19-1 et seq...

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