Legal Opinion
Jack Cummings, Ralph Best, Billy Rodgers, Bruce Henry and Terry M. Walters v. Dekalb County, James Pierce, Cliff Pruett and Richard Conley
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 11, 1994No. 93-8585PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAND, Senior District Judge.
In this action, former employees of the DeKalb County Public Works asserted claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for First Amendment (free speech and association) and Fourteenth Amendment (substantive due process and equal protection) violations, as well as state law constitutional claims, arising from their termination pursuant to a reduction-in-force in which the thirty-four positions comprising the Planning & Engineering Division of the Water & Sewer Department were eliminated. These claims were asserted against DeKalb County as well as James Pierce, the former…
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