Legal Opinion
Cole v. BUCHANAN COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided October 1, 2009No. Case 1:07CV00001PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
JAMES P. JONES, Chief Judge.
The question presented is whether the defendant, a Virginia local school board, may be sued in this court for money damages under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 (West 2003) by virtue of the Eleventh Amendment. 1
The plaintiff, Earl F. Cole, a local newspaper reporter and publisher, contends in this suit that the defendant Buchanan County School Board (“the Board”) violated his rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments by retaliating against him for publically criticizing the Board and its members. Cole also filed a pendent state-law claim alleging the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Seminole Tribe of Florida v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
- Hess v. Port Authority Trans-Hudson CorporationSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Kellam v. School Board of City of NorfolkSupreme Court of Virginia · 1960
- Lewis v. Board of Education of Talbot CountyDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 2003
- Cole v. Buchanan County School BoardDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 2007
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