Legal Opinion
Adler v. Pataki
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 20, 1999No. Docket No. 98-9022PublishedCited by 159 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON 0. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns the authority of a state to discharge an employee in unusual circumstances. The employee, alleged to have held a policy-making position, making him vulnerable to discharge because of political affiliation, contends that he was unlawfully fired, not because of his political affiliation, but in retaliation for a lawsuit filed against state officials by his wife. Alan Adler, a former Deputy Counsel in the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (“OMRDD”), appeals from the June 23, 1998, judgment of the United…
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