Case: Individual Employment Rights/Political Affiliation (D. Md.)

A Maryland federal court denied in part motions to dismiss claims of two former employees of the city of Baltimore who sued the mayor and city council alleging politically motivated wrongful discharge, after they ran for office and lost, where an employee assistant program manager’s role didn’t require political allegiance, allowing her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law claims to proceed, but a legislative affairs manager executed mayoral policy efforts, justifying dismissal of his claims.