Legal Opinion
Doctor Awanna Leslie v. Hancock County Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 12, 2013No. 12-13628PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to decide whether we have jurisdiction over an appeal of a newly elected local school board and whether its individual members violated the clearly established right to free speech of the superintendent of education and her assistant superintendent when the board terminated or demoted them for public comments about local tax policy. While Awanna Leslie served as the Superintendent of the Hancock County School System and Bettye Richardson served as Assistant Superintendent, they came to believe that the Hancock County Tax Commissioner collected…
2Cases cited45 opinions
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- Branti v. FinkelSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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