Melvin Kindle v. City of Jeffersontown, KY

GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs are former public employees who appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants on their First Amendment retaliatory-discharge claims. The district court ruled that plaintiffs were collaterally estopped from litigating the issue of whether their speech was false or made with reckless disregard for its falsity. We agree and affirm.

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In plaintiffs’ prior appeal, our court summarized the relevant background as follows:

Plaintiffs worked for the Jeffersontown Police Department (“JPD”), Kindle as a police officer and Silveria and Handy[…