Legal Opinion
Mullin v. Town of Fairhaven
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 19, 2002No. 00-2355PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to apply First Amendment law to the decision of a town to remove for cause appointed local officials unwilling to comply with the directive of the Board of Selectmen that they rescind a vote. Plaintiffs claim that the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Fairha-ven violated their First Amendment rights when it removed them from the Town’s Conservation Commission for the exercise of their votes to replace the Chair and co-Chair of the Commission.. Upon the close of plaintiffs’ evidence at a bench trial, the district court found no First Amendment…
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