Legal Opinion
Reuland v. Hynes
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 21, 2006No. Docket No. 04-5521-cvPublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POOLER, Circuit Judge.
On August 21, 2001, appellee Robert Charles Reuland filed suit against appellant Charles J. Hynes under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that his demotion within and later firing from the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office was in unlawful retaliation for his exercise of his rights under the First Amendment. Following a trial, the jury returned a special verdict finding that: (1) Reuland had not shown that one of his motives was to address a matter of public concern; (2) Reuland had shown that his statement to New York magazine was a substantial or motivating factor in Hynes’s…
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