LOCAL 2106, ETC. v. CITY OF ROCK HILL

No. 80-1526.

660 F.2d 97 (1981)

LOCAL 2106, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS, AFL-CIO; William A. Neal; Kenneth Meek and Benny Wolfe, Appellants, v. CITY OF ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA; J. Emmett Jerome, in his representative capacity as Mayor of the City of Rock Hill, South Carolina; and Elizabeth Rhea, Maxine Gill, Douglas Herlong, and Melford Wilson, Jr., in their representative capacities as members of the City Council of Rock Hill, South Carolina, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 17, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis L. Lesesne, Jr., Charlotte, N. C. (Jonathan P. Wallas, George Daly, Chambers, Ferguson & Becton, P. A., Charlotte, N. C., on brief), for appellants.

Emil W. Wald, Rock Hill, S. C. (C. W. F. Spencer, Jr., Spencer & Spencer, P. A., Robert R. Carpenter, Terry B. Millar, Roddey, Carpenter & White, Rock Hill, S. C., on brief), for appellees.

Before BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and PHILLIPS and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges.


SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

Local 2106 of the International Association of Firefighters, AFL-CIO, and individual members (hereinafter the Firefighters) appeal the judgment of the district court against them and in favor of the City of Rock Hill, South Carolina and named municipal officials (hereinafter Rock Hill), entered after a hearing on stipulated facts.1 Rock Hill prevented the Firefighters from expressing views on employment matters...

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