Odessa Ayoub, Independent of the Estate of Abdel K. Ayoub v. Texas a & M University

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

In this employment discrimination-first amendment case, Odessa Ayoub, the executrix of Dr. A.K. Ayoub’s (“Ayoub”) estate, appeals the district court’s judgment notwithstanding the verdict entered in favor of the defendants, Texas A & M University (the “University”). Ayoub had sued the University and certain University officials alleging that his civil rights had been violated when his office was relocated in retaliation against his complaints about the University’s past discriminatory pay scale. The district court determined that Ayoub’s speech was not protected,…