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ANTHONY v. SUNDLUN

No. 91-1712.

952 F.2d 603 (1991)

Jane ANTHONY, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Bruce G. SUNDLUN, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 27, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Casby Harrison, III, Associate Executive Counsel, Office of the Governor, Providence, R.I., for defendants, appellants Sundlun and Cruise.

Richard B. Woolley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Providence, R.I., for remaining defendants, appellants.

Arthur M. Read, II, with whom Gorham & Gorham, Inc., Providence, R.I., was on brief, for plaintiffs, appellees.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and CYR, Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

The defendants, state officials, adamant in their refusal to recognize that discriminatory animus can be proven circumstantially as well as by direct evidence, appeal from an order suspending the operation of termination notices addressed to the plaintiffs, seven seasonal state employees. We affirm.

The circumstances of the case can be succinctly summarized.

1. In November 1990, Rhode Island's incumbent governor, a Republican...

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