Legal Opinion
Crystal Dixon v. University of Toledo
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 17, 2012No. 12-3218PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.
In 2008, Plaintiff-Appellant Crystal Dixon, an African-American woman and then-interim Associate Vice President for Human Resources at the University of Toledo (the “University”), wrote an op-ed column in the Toledo Free Press rebuking comparisons drawn between the civil-rights and gay-rights movements. Shortly thereafter, Dixon was fired. Claiming violations of her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, Dixon subsequently filed a § 1988 suit against the University and Defendants-Appellees University President Lloyd Jacobs and University Vice President…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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