United States Second Circuit

In a suit against Connecticut state officials alleging constitutional violations arising from the termination of unionized state employees supposedly carried out by defendants in retaliation for the employees' political affiliations and union membership, an interlocutory appeal is dismissed insofar as it challenged the district court's denial of legislative immunity to defendant state officials with respect to plaintiffs' claims seeking reinstatement to their previous positions. The district court's decision is affirmed insofar as it denied legislative immunity with respect to plaintiffs' claims seeking placement into other, existing positions, and insofar as it held that plaintiffs' claims for injunctive relief were not barred by the Eleventh Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/10/2007
• Published 07/10/2007

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:, Before:  FEINBERG, LEVAL, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Allan B. Taylor (Albert Zakarian, Victoria Woodin Chavey, and Douglas W. Bartinik, on the brief), Day Berry & Howard LLP, Hartford, CT, for Defendants-Appellants., David S. Golub (Jonathan M. Levine and Craig N. Yankwitt, on the brief), Silver Golub & Teitell LLP, Stamford, CT, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.