Shawna Hess v. Carol Abels

GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.

The City of Stuttgart (“the City”) terminated Shawna Hess’s employment after she refused a state trooper’s request to take a drug test. Hess claims she was terminated in retaliation for her decision to exercise her Fourth Amendment rights, and she sued the City, her supervisor Tommy Lawson, the City’s personnel director Carol Abies, and the City’s mayor Marianne Maynard. The district court 1 granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity, and we affirm.

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We review the district court’s grant of summary judgment de novo, taking the facts…