Legal Opinion

Siwek v. Farley

District Court, W.D. New York

Decided March 21, 1988No. CIV-87-70EPublished

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ELFVIN, District Judge.

The plaintiff filed this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, with two pendent state law claims, alleging that she had been fired from her position as Director of Community Sentencing Services for the County of Erie due to her having campaigned to be the candidate of the Republican Party for the position of Mayor of the City of Buffalo and that such termination violated her rights under the First and Fourteen Amendments. After three weeks of trial, a jury returned a verdict against the plaintiff and in favor of the defendants on all causes of action.…

2Cases cited19 opinions

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Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
McDonald v. PlessSupreme Court of the United States · 1915

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