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GRIFFITH v. BELL-WHITLEY COM. ACTION AGENCY

No. 77-1675.

614 F.2d 1102 (1980)

Millard GRIFFITH, John Baker and Bernice Mays, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BELL-WHITLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided January 31, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura Bowers Vandergraw, Appalachian Research & Defense Fund of Kentucky, Inc., Lexington, Ky., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Lloyd R. Edens, Denham, Nagle & Edens, Middlesboro, Ky., for defendants-appellees.

Before WEICK and LIVELY, Circuit Judges, and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.

HARRY PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs-appellants allege that the defendant, Bell-Whitley Community Action Agency (BWCAA), violated their constitutional rights by discharging and refusing to rehire them because they had opposed the election of L. David Stone as BWCAA's Executive Director. The district court held that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction and dismissed the complaint. We affirm on the ground that the complaint does not state a cause of...

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