Legal Opinion
How v. City of Baxter Springs
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 22, 2007No. 06-3022PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND JUDGMENT*
PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-Appellant Charles How appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees Donna Wixon and Robert E. Myers on his constitutional tort claims brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Generally, Mr. How claims that Defendants violated his First Amendment right to free speech when they pursued a criminal defamation claim against him. He contends that the prosecution was in retaliation for his publication of a political advertisement in a local newspaper. The district court based its grant of summary…
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