BROWN v. HALPIN

Docket No. 16-3615 August Term, 2017.

885 F.3d 111 (2018)

Virginia BROWN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Brenda HALPIN, State of Connecticut, Defendants-Appellants, Office of the State Comptroller, State Employees Retirement Commission, Kevin Lembo, In His Individual Capacity, P. Martha Carlson, In Her Individual Capacity, Natalie Braswell, In Her Individual Capacity, Linda Yelmini, In Her Individual Capacity, State of Connecticut, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 15, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

TODD D. STEIGMAN , Madsen, Prestley & Parenteau, LLC, Hartford, CT, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

ANN E. LYNCH ( Josephine S. Graff , on the brief) Assistant Attorney General, for George Jepsen , Attorney General, Hartford, CT, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before: Katzmann, Chief Judge, Walker, Calabresi, Circuit Judges.


In this interlocutory appeal, we are called upon to address claims of First Amendment retaliation and violations of Connecticut state law, and defenses of qualified immunity and state sovereign immunity. We conclude that we lack jurisdiction to consider the qualified immunity defense at this time — when we must accept plaintiff's allegations...

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