Legal Opinion
Walton v. NM State Land Office
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 19, 2016No. 14-2166PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.
Sometimes we face questions of procedure; sometimes we face questions of substance. This appeal is heavy, very heavy, on procedure. The parties begin by debating the rules we must follow when analyzing qualified immunity appeals under Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304, 115 S.Ct. 2151, 132 L.Ed.2d 238 (1995). Next they spar over whether the eponymous burden-shifting framework of McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792, 93 S.Ct. 1817, 36 L.Ed.2d 668 (1973), should or shouldn’t be transplanted from the Title VII context to First Amendment retaliation disputes like…
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