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NORTHERN VA. REG. PK. AUTH. v. UNITED STATES CIV. SERV. COM.

No. 14559.

437 F.2d 1346 (1971)

NORTHERN VIRGINIA REGIONAL PARK AUTHORITY, and William M. Lightsey, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Robert E. Hampton, James E. Johnson and Ludwig J. Andolsek, Commissioners, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 19, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund D. Campbell, Washington, D. C. (Stuyvesant K. Bearns, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellants.

Raymond D. Battochi, Atty., Department of Justice (William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty. Gen., Alan S. Rosenthal and Patricia S. Baptiste, Attys., Department of Justice, and Brian P. Gettings, U. S. Atty., on the brief), for appellees.

Before SOBELOFF, WINTER and CRAVEN, Circuit Judges.

SOBELOFF, Senior Circuit Judge:

This case involves the constitutionality of a provision of the Hatch Act that prohibits employees of federally funded state agencies from engaging in partisan political activity, 5 U.S.C. § 1502(a) (3).1 Also at issue is the construction of an exemption contained in the Act, 5 U.S.C. § 1502(c) (4),2 which excludes certain...

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