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LEWIS v. COWEN

No. 97-7895.

165 F.3d 154 (1999)

J. Blaine LEWIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bruce D. COWEN, Roland H. Lange, and William V. Hickey, Individually, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 15, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aaron S. Bayer, Assistant Attorney General (Robert F. Vacchelli, on the brief), Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, Hartford, Connecticut, for Defendants-Appellants.

William S. Rogers, Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn (William H. Champlin III, on the brief), Hartford, Connecticut, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: KEARSE and WALKER, Circuit Judges, and WEINSTEIN, District Judge.

WALKER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellee J. Blaine Lewis, the person in charge of Connecticut's lottery, was fired by his supervisors for refusing to publicly support a change in the lottery. Claiming a deprivation of his First Amendment rights, he won a substantial jury verdict in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Alfred V. Covello, Chief District Judge). The defendants-appellants, all Connecticut state public officials, now...

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