Legal Opinion
Dick Dickeson and Beth Weaver v. Deloyd Quarberg and the Board of County Commissioners of Hot Springs County, Wyoming
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 25, 1988No. 85-1715PublishedCited by 127 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLOWAY, Chief Judge.
Plaintiffs Dickeson and Weaver filed suit against the defendants Board of County Commissioners of Hot Springs County (Board) and Sheriff Quarberg under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of their constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. They asserted that they had been discharged from their employment in the Sheriff’s Department because of their association with the former Sheriff, Walter Harvey, and that their terminations violated their due process rights.
The defendants moved for summary judgment. The district court rejected the plaintiffs’…
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