DANAHY v. BUSCAGLIA

No. 2065, Docket 97-7264.

134 F.3d 1185 (1998)

David DANAHY, Bette B. Bissram, Mary M. Matthews, Clarence Mungo, Bernadette T. Burke, Nick F. Angiletta and Peter Henesey, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Barry Weiss, Linda Lalli Stark and Joel D. Mahl, Plaintiffs, v. Russell BUSCAGLIA, individually, Salvatore W. Page, individually, and Dennis C. Vacco, individually, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 27, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklyn H. Snitow, New York City (Charles D. Cunningham, Richard A. Braunstein, Snitow and Pauley, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellants.

Craig T. Dickinson, White Plains, NY (Jonathan Lovett, Kim Patricia Berg, Lovett & Gould, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before MESKILL and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges, and BRIEANT, District Judge.


BRIEANT, District Judge.

The sole issue presented in this interlocutory appeal under the collateral order doctrine is whether Defendants, Attorney General of the State of New York, his former Acting Deputy and former Deputy for Administration are entitled to "qualified immunity" against the claim of Plaintiffs that they were discharged wrongfully from Government employment in violation of their First Amendment right of free...

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