WROBEL v. COUNTY OF ERIE

Docket No. 10-5179-CV.

692 F.3d 22 (2012)

Timothy M. WROBEL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF ERIE, Douglas Naylon, Individually and in his official capacity as a County Employee, Daniel Rider, Individually and in his official capacity as a County Employee, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 1, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christen Archer Pierrot , Chiacchia & Fleming, LLP, Hamburg, NY ( Andrew P. Fleming , on brief), for Appellant.

David Sleight , Erie County Department of Law, Buffalo NY, for Appellees County of Erie and Daniel Rider.

Robert Louis Boreanaz , Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLP, Buffalo, NY, for Appellee Douglas Naylon.

Judge CALABRESI dissents in a separate opinion.


DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:

Timothy Wrobel appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York (Curtin, J.), dismissing on summary judgment his First Amendment claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against his former employer, Erie County, and certain employees. Because Wrobel failed to adduce evidence that his mistreatment was caused by political association or by speech about matters of public concern...

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