VEZZETTI v. PELLEGRINI

No. 926, Docket 93-7834.

22 F.3d 483 (1994)

Charles VEZZETTI and David Stuart, Plaintiffs-Appellants, William Griffith, Plaintiff, v. Roger PELLEGRINI, Supervisor; Cornelius "Neil" O'Sullivan; Cornelius "Connie" O'Sullivan; Dr. Edward Fisher and Pauline Levin, councilpersons, constituting the Town Board of the Town of Orangetown and The Town of Orangetown, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 20, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David MacRae Wagner, Freedman, Wagner, Tabakman, Weiss & Insler, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Lisa L. Shrewsberry, D'Amato & Lynch, New York City, for defendants-appellees.

Before: NEWMAN, Chief Judge, WINTER and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.


JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

Two former employees of the Town of Orangetown, New York, appeal the dismissal of their complaint alleging that they were fired on account of their political affiliation as Republicans. Plaintiffs-Appellants Charles Vezzetti and David Stuart pleaded under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that their rights of free speech and association, as guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, were thereby violated by Town Supervisor Roger...

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