Legal Opinion
Danahy v. Buscaglia
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 27, 1998No. 2065, Docket 97-7264PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRIEANT, District Judge.
The sole issue presented in this interlocutory appeal under the collateral order doctrine is whether Defendants, Attorney General of the State of New York, his former Acting Deputy and former Deputy for Administration are entitled to “qualified immunity” against the claim of Plaintiffs that they were discharged wrongfully from Government employment in violation of their First Amendment right of free association as explained in Elrod-Branti and its progeny.1 We conclude that we have jurisdiction to hear this appeal under the collateral order doctrine and that based on…
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- Elrod v. BurnsSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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