WAGNER v. HAWKINS

Civ. No. 85-2192.

634 F.Supp. 751 (1986)

Leon WAGNER, Booster Hawkins, Harry Rose, Douglas Moore, James Yandell, John Cotner, Ann Oliver, Leon Baker, Troy Defore, Leroy Craig, Leroy Bass, Tim McCurter, Tommy Lloyd, Bob Ballard, Clarence Boyd, and Charley Speaks, Plaintiffs, v. Clyde HAWKINS, County Judge of Scott County, Arkansas, Individually and in his Official Capacity as County Judge, and Scott County, Arkansas, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Arkansas, Fort Smith Division.

April 28, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory T. Karber, Pryor, Robinson & Barry, Fort Smith, Ark., for plaintiffs.

Betsy Hall, Hardin, Jesson & Dawson, Jerry D. Pruitt, Pruitt & Hodnett, Fort Smith, Ark., Paul E. Danielson, Booneville, Ark., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ARNOLD, District Judge.

Plaintiffs initiated this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that their employment relationship with Scott County, Arkansas, was terminated in violation of rights to political expression guaranteed them by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Specifically, they claim that the defendant Clyde Hawkins, County Judge of Scott County...

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