United States Second Circuit

A city council employee and legislative aide to a council member could not maintain a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 civil rights action for his firing in retaliation for a vote by the council member.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/10/2003
• Published 01/10/2003

Judges

• Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, and MINER and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Kim Berg, Lovett & Gould, Esqs., White Plains, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Robert David Goodstein, Goodstein & West, New Rochelle, NY (Eileen West, of counsel, Goodstein & West, New Rochelle, NY), for Defendant-Appellant Symra D. Brandon., Ching Wah Chin, Senior Associate Corporation Counsel, Yonkers, New York (William M. Mooney, Corporation Counsel, Yonkers, NY), for Defendant-Appellant City of Yonkers.