United States Second Circuit

42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim, alleging termination in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments, was not actionable where a law clerk failed to produce any evidence that judge terminated him to prevent his speaking about the judge's alleged misconduct.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/28/2003
• Published 01/28/2003

Judges

• McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge., Before:  WINTER, McLAUGHLIN and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian Sheppard, Law Office of Brian Sheppard, New Hyde Park, NY, pro se, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael B. Siller, for Eliot Spitzer, Att'y Gen. of N.Y., New York, N.Y. (Michael S. Belohlavek, Deputy Solicitor Gen. of N.Y., New York, NY, of counsel) for Defendant-Appellee.