United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of First Amendment suit against state court judge who had discharged plaintiff from her at-will employment as a magistrate court clerk after her son, also a plaintiff, filed as a candidate for the position of circuit clerk against plaintiff's colleague is affirmed as plaintiff has failed to state a claim that her firing violated her First Amendment speech or associational rights and plaintiff's son lacks standing.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/12/2007
• Decided 05/18/2007
• Published 05/18/2007

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, MOTZ, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Allan Norman Karlin, Morgantown, West Virginia, for Appellants.  John M. Hedges, Byrne, Hedges & Lyons, Morgantown, West Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Teresa J. Lyons, Byrne, Hedges & Lyons, Morgantown, West Virginia, for Appellee.