Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Town of Elizabethtown
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided September 11, 1986No. 85-1547PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ERVIN, Circuit Judge:
This case arises out of the discharge of Deborah S. Johnson from her job as Town Clerk of Elizabethtown, North Carolina. Johnson claims that she was dismissed in retaliation for constitutionally protected criticisms of the town government. She also claims that she was slandered by Town Administrator James Freeman. Finding an insufficient causal link between the protected speech and Johnson’s dismissal, we affirm the trial court’s order of judgment notwithstanding the verdict in favor of Elizabethtown. We dismiss the state tort claim against Freeman, a pendent party, for…
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