United States Second Circuit

In suit alleging that discipline of state correctional officers for association with the Outlaws Motorcycle Club violated their rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, dismissal of complaint is affirmed over claims that the district court erred in: 1) finding the "public concern" test applicable to their expressive association claims and failing to find that a balancing of the parties' respective interests favored plaintiffs; 2) failing to find that defendants' actions burdened plaintiffs' intimate personal relationships; and 3) failing to find the department regulation void for vagueness as applied.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/21/2007
• Published 12/21/2007

Judges

• KEARSE, Circuit Judge:, Before:  KEARSE and SACK, Circuit Judges, and STANCEU, Judge .

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kathleen Eldergill, Manchester, Connecticut (Beck & Eldergill, Manchester, Connecticut, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory T. D'Auria, Associate Attorney General, Hartford, Connecticut (Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General of the State of Connecticut, Margaret Q. Chapple, Assistant Attorney General, Hartford, Connecticut, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.