Legal Opinion
Wanda Sowards v. Loudon County, Tennessee and Timothy Guider, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Loudon County, Tennessee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 24, 2000No. 98-6768PublishedCited by 174 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Wanda Sowards filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Loudon County and the Sheriff of Loudon County Timothy Guider, in his individual and official capacities, claiming that she was terminated from her position as a jailer at the Loudon County Sheriffs Department in retaliation for exercising her First Amendment rights of political and intimate association. So-wards’s husband, William Sowards, had run unsuccessfully for sheriff against Guider in early 1994. Guider terminated So-wards’s employment in July 1995 allegedly because she missed an outstanding warrant on…
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