Legal Opinion
Segars v. Fulton County
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided December 10, 1986No. Civ. A. No. C85-4426APublished
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ROBERT H. HALL, District Judge.
This matter is currently before the court on plaintiffs Segars and Byers’ motion for an award of attorney’s fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988.
FACTS
This case arose over Fulton County Personnel Regulations PR-1600-1, PR-1200-11(1) and PR-1200-11(3), which required Fulton County employees to take leave from employment without pay in order to seek elective office and, if successful, to resign from county employment in order to hold that office. The court in its order held that these regulations, as relates to plaintiff Segars, unconstitutionally infringed the…
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