Macko v. Byron

Plaintiffs-appellants appealed from the district court’s dismissal of their civil rights action. On November 4, 1977, plaintiffs filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against various officials of the city of Willoughby Hills, Ohio, claiming that they were unjustly charged with criminal offenses as punishment for exercising first amendment rights during their efforts to recall some of the defendants from public office. Plaintiffs originally named as defendants the prosecutor, the assistant prosecutor, the mayor, the clerk of the city council, the law director, and several council members.

Plaintiffs…