Hanak v. Taylor

MEMORANDUM

MERHIGE, District Judge.

The matter is before the Court pursuant to Defendants’ motion for summary judgment filed pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(c). Plaintiff Doctor Walter K. Ha-nak, a resident of West Virginia, and professor of History at Shepherd College, a component of the state college system, alleges that his constitutional rights are being violated by virtue of the application of Article 6, Sec. 13 of the West Virginia Constitution, which bars, inter aiia, state employees from serving in the West Virginia Legislature simultaneously with their state employ.…