BATTERTON v. TEXAS GENERAL LAND OFFICE

No. 84-1961.

783 F.2d 1220 (1986)

John BATTERTON, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The TEXAS GENERAL LAND OFFICE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 12, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Connie Ode, Bunton, Nolan, Ode & Cooper, Margaret A. Cooper, Austin, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

F. Scott McCown, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before GEE, RUBIN and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

Today's case requires us to decide whether the dismissal of four employees of the Texas General Land Office (GLO) violated their constitutional rights. The appellant employees maintain that a Texas statute grants them a property interest in their jobs or, in the alternative, that informal practices within the department do so, as well as that their discharges violated first amendment rights. The trial court entered summary judgment against them...

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