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TRIPPY v. SAMS

No. CIV-2-79-134.

512 F.Supp. 5 (1980)

Dan TRIPPY et al., Plaintiffs, v. Tom SAMS, Defendant.

United States District Court, E. D. Tennessee.

August 8, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip P. Durand and W. P. Boone Dougherty, Knoxville, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

John F. Dugger, Morristown, Tenn., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

NEESE, District Judge.

This is an action by 8 American citizens who are former public employees against the sheriff of Hamblen County, Tennessee for depriving them, under color of Tennessee law, of their right to free speech (political belief and association), Constitution, First Amendment, by failing to rehire them when the term of the defendant as sheriff began on September 1, 1978 because of their earlier partisan political conduct...

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