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STATE EMPLOYEES BARGAINING AGENT v. ROWLAND

Docket No. 06-0616-cv.

494 F.3d 71 (2007)

STATE EMPLOYEES BARGAINING AGENT COALITION, individually, and on behalf of all its members, American Federation of School Administration, Local 61, AFL-CIO, Connecticut Association of Prosecutors, Protective Service Coalition, IAFF, AFL-CIO, Judicial Marshals, International Brotherhood of Police Officers, National Association of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, Connecticut State Police Union, Congress of Connecticut Community Colleges, SEIU, AFL-CIO, Connecticut State University American Association of University Professors, Univ. of CT, American Assn. of Univ. Prof., CT Emp. Union Independent, SEIU, AFL-CIO, CT Federation of Ed. & Prof. Emp. AFT, AFL-CIO, District 1199, CT New England Health Care Employees Union, SEIU, AFL-CIO, Council 4, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Emp., AFL-CIO, Denise A. Bouffard, Geneva M. Hedgecock, Dennis P. Hefferman, William D. Hill, and Marcelle Y. Pichanick, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. John G. ROWLAND, i/o as Governor of the State of Connecticut, and Marc S. Ryan, i/o as Sec. of Ofc. of Policy & Mgmt. of State of CT, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 10, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan B. Taylor (Albert Zakarian, Victoria Woodin Chavey, and Douglas W. Bartinik, on the brief), Day Berry & Howard LLP, Hartford, CT, for Defendants-Appellants.

David S. Golub (Jonathan M. Levine and Craig N. Yankwitt, on the brief), Silver Golub & Teitell LLP, Stamford, CT, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before: FEINBERG, LEVAL, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

The question presented in this interlocutory appeal is whether absolute legislative immunity and Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity should bar plaintiffs' claims arising from the allegedly unlawful termination of their state employment by executive branch officials of the State of Connecticut. In particular, we consider arguments by defendants John G. Rowland ("Rowland"), former Governor of the State of Connecticut, and Mark...

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