Lloyd L. Downing, M. D. v. R. Allen Williams, Superintendent
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Ainsworth, Circuit Judge, filed a dissenting opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal by a plaintiff physician from a jury verdict for the defendants in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit for damages and in-junctive relief in which the physician alleged that his procedural due process and first amendment rights had been violated. We reverse the judgment.
Lloyd Downing was the only staff psychiatrist at the San Angelo Center, a Texas state mental health and mental retardation facility. It appears that over the years he worked there, he had doubts about the quality of care patients were receiving at the Center. He made complaints about the facility to…
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