BUSCHI v. KIRVEN

No. 84-1280.

775 F.2d 1240 (1985)

Brendan BUSCHI; Dennis B. Draper, Jr.; Donald Vassey; Susan Andrews; Wanda Scott; Elizabeth G. Tsatsios and Jerry Wall, Appellants, v. Leo E. KIRVEN, Jr.; William J. Burns; Jean Harris; C. William Brett; Raymond F. Holmes; Glenn R. Yank; Paul L. Hundley; David Colton; Charles Spraker; L.F. Harding; John N. Dalton; Kenneth B. Yancey; Carolyn O. Marsh; Joseph J. Bevilacqua; Anne S. Goodman; Ruth Cook; Ralph DeWitt; Robert Harrison; Philip E. Denton; Charles S. Robb; Patrick A. O'Hare; Deborah L. Bryant; Robert Ware; Mary Bradshaw and Willis Spaulding, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 29, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward M. Wayland, Charlottesville, Va. (Wayland & Williams, Earl R. Burton, Charlottesville, Va., on brief) for appellants.

Karen A. Gould, Richmond, Va., Carter R. Allen, Waynesville, Va., John M. Claytor, Richmond, Va. (James W. Morris, III, Crews, Hancock & Dunn, Richmond, Va., Allen, Dalton & Watkins, Waynesboro, Va., Browder, Russell, Morris & Butcher, Richmond, Va., on brief) for appellees.

Before RUSSELL and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

Seven dismissed employees of the State Western Mental Hospital, located at Staunton, Virginia, have filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 two actions charging basically that their discharges were the result of a conspiracy in violation of both their first amendment and due process rights. They have named as defendants some twenty-five state officials and employees, ranging from the Governor of the Commonwealth down through the department...

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