Legal Opinion
Charles v. Grief
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 31, 2008No. 07-50537PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge: *
Defendant-Appellant Gary Grief, an upper-level official of the Texas Lottery Commission (the “Commission”), appeals the district court’s denial of his summary judgment motion to dismiss him, on grounds of qualified immunity, as a defendant in the 42 U.S.C. § 1983 employment retaliation suit filed by Plaintiff-Appellee Shelton Charles, 1 whom Grief fired from his job as a systems analyst with the Commission. Concluding that the district court correctly determined that, if Charles could prove that Grief fired him for his “speech,” Charles has alleged an objectively…
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