United States Second Circuit

Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development was entitled to qualified immunity on free speech retaliation and equal protection claims, for his alleged refusal to consider an application to serve as Connecticut's trade representatives to Africa countries.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/23/2002
• Published 05/23/2002

Judges

• Before: KATZMANN and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges, and GLEESON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mark F. Kohler (Karla A. Turekian, on the brief), Assistant Attorneys General;  Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, Hartford, CT, on behalf of Defendant-Appellant James F. Abromaitis., John R. Williams, Williams & Pattis, New Haven, CT, on behalf of Plaintiff-Appellees African Trade & Information Center, Inc., Mohamoud D. Ahmed, and Alan W. Gates.