537, 545, 107 S.Ct. 1940, 95 L.Ed.2d 474 (1987), and to be free from retaliation for family association. Adkins v. Bd. of Educ. of Magoffin County, Kentucky, 982 F.2d 952 (6th Cir.1993). The district court recognized that Plaintiffs complaint did not expressly invoke the First Amendment. The district court would have rejected any First Amendment claim, citing Claybrook v. Birchwell, 199 F.3d 350, 357 (6th Cir.2000) (“[A] section 1983 cause of action is entirely personal to the direct victim of the alleged constitutional tort.”) The district court reasoned that because Plaintiff had alleged that his parents’ rights, rather than his own First Amendment rights, had been violated, the Plaintiff failed to state a First Amendment claim. See Morris v. Lindau, 196 F.3d 102, 113 (2d Cir.1999) (<HOLDING>). We do not reach the First Amendment issue
holding that police chiefs son who alleged that he was denied an interview for a position because his father had criticized the local officials did not have standing to assert the first amendment rights of his father holding that son had no homestead interest in property even though he resided upon it with his fathers consent because son had neither title nor a present right to possess land nor right to demand partition from father who was his cotenant holding that plaintiff had cared for his father who suffered severe depression after murder of his daughter within meaning of fmla interim regulation because inter alia he discussed with his father grief associated with murder and provided reassuring physical presence to his father holding noncustodial father did not have standing to sue on his daughters behalf holding that the presumption of legitimacy shifts the burden of persuasion to the putative father to establish that he did not father the child