Weaver v. Shaffer

NEELY, Chief Justice:

The appellant, Clarence Weaver, challenges a provision of the West Virginia Civil Service for Deputy Sheriffs Act which prohibits political activity on the grounds that the statute is vague and overbroad. The Circuit Court of Kanawha County found that the appellant had engaged in proscribed political activities while a member of the classified civil service and concluded that the challenged statute is not so vague or broad as to be constitutionally infirm. We affirm.1

In 1971 our Legislature enacted W.Va. Code, 7-14-1 [1971] et seq. establishing civil service for deputy…