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McCALLUM v. HINSON

Civ. A. No. 79-116-MAC.

489 F.Supp. 627 (1980)

Jimmy L. McCALLUM, Plaintiff, v. Jimmy E. HINSON, Individually and as Fire Chief of the Macon-Bibb County Fire Department; Buckner F. Melton, Individually and as Mayor of the City of Macon, Georgia; and their successors in office, Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Georgia, Macon Division.

April 8, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Mincey, Sylvia G. Haywood, Mincey & Kenmore, P. C., Macon, Ga., Harris Jacobs, Jacobs, Jacobs & Davis, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff.

Andrew W. McKenna, City Atty., Katherine M. Kalish, J. Michael Carpenter, Staff Attys., Macon, Ga., for defendants.

OWENS, Chief Judge:

Jimmy L. McCallum is one of many Macon firefighters who refused to work beginning July 6, 1972, because of a pay raise given to police officers but not to firemen. He and some 94 striking, suspended firemen—only 35 of whom, not including Jimmy L. McCallum, were reinstated by agreement—learned the hard way in this court that firemen have a First Amendment constitutional right to be members...

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