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ARVINGER v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE

No. 88-2002.

862 F.2d 75 (1988)

Stephen A. ARVINGER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE; Baltimore City Department of Education; Larry Burgan, Baltimore City Department of Education and; Bernard Stokes, Baltimore City Department of Education, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 23, 1988.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied December 19, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip G. Dantes (Neal M. Janey, City Sol., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for defendants-appellants.

Kathleen M. Cahill, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before MURNAGHAN and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied December 19, 1988.

RICHARD L. WILLIAMS, District Judge:

This case involves the first amendment rights of public employees. The lower court held that the appellants violated the first amendment rights of the appellee when it fired him for a statement he made. Because we hold that the statement in question did not involve a matter of public concern, but was rather made with only private interests in mind, the lower court...

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