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DENNISON v. COUNTY OF FREDERICK, VA.

No. 90-1723.

921 F.2d 50 (1990)

John W. DENNISON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF FREDERICK, VIRGINIA; Kenneth Y. Stiles, individually and in his capacity as Chairman of the Frederick County Board of Supervisors; John R. Riley, individually and in his capacity as County Administrator of Frederick County, Virginia, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Schultz, Jr., Harrison & Johnston, Winchester, Va., for plaintiff-appellant.

Scott Sanford Cairns, argued (William E. Twomey, Jr., McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Richmond, Va., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before CHAPMAN and WILKINS, Circuit Judges, and WARD, Senior United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant John Dennison ("Dennison") sued defendant-appellee County of Frederick (the "County") under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988), alleging constructive discharge in violation of Dennison's first and fourteenth amendment rights. The district court granted the County's motion for summary judgment on the basis of collateral estoppel. Although we question the appropriateness of the district court's collateral estoppel ruling, we affirm...

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