GARRAGHTY v. JORDAN

No. 86-3718.

830 F.2d 1295 (1987)

David A. GARRAGHTY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Fred E. JORDAN, Jr., individually and as Regional Administrator, Central Region, Virginia Department of Corrections; Edward Murray, individually and as Deputy Director, Virginia Department of Corrections; Allyn R. Sielaff, individually and as Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig Becker (John C. Dempsey, Kirschner, Weinberg & Dempsey, Washington, D.C., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

H. Aubrey Ford, III (Philip B. Morris, John D. Epps, Browder, Russell, Morris & Butcher, P.C., Richmond, Va., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before RUSSELL and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges, and JOSEPH F. ANDERSON, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.


DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

David Garraghty, a Virginia prison Warden, sued his superiors, defendants Jordan, Murray and Sielaff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that they violated his first amendment and due process rights by suspending him from his job without due process and solely to punish him for exercising his first amendment rights of free speech and association. A three day jury trial commenced on August 15, 1986. In its order with respect to the...

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