United States Fourth Circuit

Employer's motion for summary judgment was properly granted on Appellant's claims that she was unlawfully terminated based on her political affiliation. The position of Assistant Director at the Baltimore City Department of Social Services is one for which political affiliation is a constitutionally permissible ground for termination.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/12/2008
• Published 12/12/2008

Judges

• Before KING, GREGORY, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Joseph Schiffer Kaufman, Schulman & Kaufman, L.L.C., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant.  Julia Doyle Bernhardt, Office of the Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Douglas F. Gansler, Attorney General of Maryland, David E. Beller, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees Floyd R. Blair, Esquire, Robert L. Ehrlich, Individually and as Governor, Christopher J. McCabe, Neil E. Merkel, Heinrich Joseph Losemann, Jr., and Anthony Cobb.