Legal Opinion
McCloud v. Testa
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 21, 1996No. 94-4144PublishedCited by 137 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Joseph W. Testa brings this interlocutory appeal1 from the district court’s refusal to grant his motion for summary judgment on grounds of qualified immunity in this § 1983 political patronage case brought by several dismissed Franklin County, Ohio Auditor’s Office employees. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
I
Testa was appointed to serve out the term of Palmer McNeal as Franklin County, Ohio Auditor2 in May 1992, after McNeal resigned upon conviction of an abuse of trust offense under Ohio law. McNeal and Testa had been friends, and in fact Testa had once…
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