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MEEKS v. GRIMES

No. 85-1176.

779 F.2d 417 (1985)

Moses MEEKS, Jose Lopez, Emitt Barge, George Butler, Carl Hutchinson, George Washington, Gloria Kaplanos, Administratrix of the Estate of Bill Gianopoulos, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Douglas M. GRIMES, individually and as Judge of the Gary City Court of Gary, Indiana; Office of the Gary City Court of Gary, Indiana; Common Council of the City of Gary and its Individual Members, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Frank, Gary, Ind., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Alton L. Gill, Jr., Dept. of Law, City of Gary, Gary, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before WOOD and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants are former bailiffs of the Gary City Court of Gary, Indiana who claim that they were terminated for their political activities in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments as interpreted in Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347, 96 S.Ct. 2673, 49 L.Ed.2d 547 (1976). Following a bench trial the district court ruled in favor of the defendants and plaintiffs appealed to this court. Finding...

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