State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition v. Rowland

GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-appellants, labor organizations and state employees, brought this action in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Alfred Y. Covello, Judge), contending that defendants-appel-lees state officials violated their First Amendment right to freedom of association by discriminatorily laying off only union members when reducing the state’s work force. The district court granted summary judgment to defendants in their official capacities based on a stipulated factual record and dismissed plaintiffs’ claims; the court also dismissed…