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KNIGHT v. VERNON

No. 98-2514.

214 F.3d 544 (2000)

Kathy W. KNIGHT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. C.D. VERNON, individually and in his official capacity as Sheriff of Rockingham County; Rockingham County, Defendants-Appellees. American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation, Incorporated, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 2, 2000.

Order Denying Rehearing and Rehearing July 28, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Robert Mauldin Elliot, Elliot, Pishko, Gelbin & Morgan, P.A., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for Appellant. James Redfern Morgan, Jr., Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, P.L.L.C., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for Appellees.

ON BRIEF: Martha A. Geer, Patterson, Harkavy & Lawrence, L.L.P., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Amicus Curiae.

Before WIDENER and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and MAGILL, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Order Denying Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc July 28, 2000.

Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge MICHAEL wrote the opinion, in which Senior Judge MAGILL joined. Judge WIDENER wrote a separate opinion, concurring in part and dissenting in part.

OPINION

MICHAEL, Circuit Judge:

This is a political firing case. Kathy Knight, a jailer in Rockingham County, North Carolina, claims the sheriff fired her for...

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