Legal Opinion
Gahr v. Trammel
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 24, 1986No. 85-1612PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.
Kenneth E. Gahr brought suit in federal district court against the individual members of the school board of Turrell, Arkansas, and the superintendent of Turrell schools, alleging that the defendants terminated Gahr’s employment as a teacher in violation of his first and fourteenth amendment rights. The district court1 granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, holding that an Arkansas state court’s affirmance of the school board’s decision to terminate Gahr precluded litigation of Gahr’s constitutional claims in federal court under the doctrine of res…
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