Claussen v. Pence

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs are civil servants who hold elected office in the municipality that employs them. They challenge a recently-enacted Indiana law prohibiting persons from simultaneously holding elected office and being employed as civil servants in the same unit of government. Plaintiffs contend that the law violates the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The district court granted defendants’ motion to dismiss, and for the reasons that follow, we affirm.

I. Background

In 2012, the Indiana General Assembly…