Legal Opinion

Harrison v. Coffman

District Court, E.D. Arkansas

Decided January 25, 1999No. LR-C-98-716PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SACHS, District Judge, sitting by designation.

Plaintiff Harrison is a former administrative law judge (ALJ) who was engaged in the initial adjudication of workers’ compensation claims under Arkansas law. She alleges a violation of First Amendment rights (as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment) by reason of her termination in August 1998, by majority vote of the defendant members of the Workers’ Compensation Commission. 1 Her employment was at will, but she contends it could not be terminated on grounds violating the United States Constitution. The allegations of the…

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