Legal Opinion
Branti v. Finkel
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 31, 1980No. 78-1654PublishedCited by 1,848 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
The question presented is whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution protect an assistant public defender who is satisfactorily performing his job from discharge solely because of his political beliefs.
Respondents, Aaron Finkel and Alan Tabakman, commenced this action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in order to preserve their positions as assistant public defenders in Rockland County, New York.1 On January 4,1978, on the basis of a showing that the petitioner public defender was about to discharge them solely because they were…
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