United States Second Circuit

Judgment for plaintiff on claim of retaliatory suspension, in case alleging the acting chief of police, a Republican, suspended plaintiff on trumped-up charges for supporting local Democrats, is vacated as the district court abused its discretion by allowing into evidence irrelevant and prejudicial testimony concerning a state arbitration board's prior findings in plaintiff's favor.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/17/2007
• Published 01/18/2007

Judges

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

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Karen Lee Torre, Law Offices of Karen Lee Torre, New Haven, CT, for Plaintiff-Appellee James Arlio., James E. Coyne, Coyne, von Kuhn, Brady & Fries, LLC (Colleen D. Fries and Tyler M. Barhorst, on the brief), Stratford, CT, for Defendant-Appellant Marlin J. Lively.