Legal Opinion
Wagner v. Devine
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 4, 1997No. 96-2315PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.
Appellant Robert Wagner, former chief of police in Holyoke, Massachusetts, claims that his First Amendment freedom of political association was violated when members of the city council and others subjected him to severe harassment, ultimately forcing him to resign, because of his political support for the city’s mayor. He filed this lawsuit alleging federal constitutional and state law claims. 1 The district court dismissed the First Amendment counts for failure to state a claim, and declined supplemental jurisdiction over the state law counts. Because the First…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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3Cited by24 opinions
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