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COLLINS v. VOINOVICH

No. 97-3154.

150 F.3d 575 (1998)

Patrick S. COLLINS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. George V. VOINOVICH, Individually and in his official capacity, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 14, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin L. Shoemaker (argued and briefed), Christensen, Shoemaker & Winkler, Columbus, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jack W. Decker, Office of the Attorney General of Ohio, John W. Zeiger, Marion H. Little, Jr. (argued and briefed), Stuart G. Parsell, Zeiger & Carpenter, Columbus, OH, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: RYAN and SILER, Circuit Judges, HOOD, District Judge.

OPINION

RYAN, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, Patrick S. Collins, appeals from the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants on Collins's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 political-firing claim.

I.

The plaintiff, a registered Democrat, alleges that in 1991 defendant Virgil Brown, the newly appointed executive director of the Ohio Lottery Commission (OLC), discharged Collins from his position as OLC assistant legal counsel...

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