Legal Opinion
Ethel Jones v. Gary Collins, Superintendent of Texarkana Independent School District
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 12, 1998No. 96-41192PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge:
Defendant-appellant Gary Collins, the superintendent of Texarkana Independent School District, appeals the district court’s partial denial of his motion for summary judgment on the ground that a fact issue exists as to whether he possesses qualified immunity from liability for plaintiff-appellee Ethel Jones’s claim, asserted under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, that Collins violated her First Amendment rights. Because we find that the evidence in the summary judgment record, construed in the light most favorable to Jones, indicates that Collins did not violate Jones’s First Amendmént…
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