Legal Opinion
Helget v. City of Hays, Kansas
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 4, 2017No. 15-3093PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge.
Firma Helget worked for the City of Hays, Kansas, as the administrative secretary for the Hays Police Department. In 2012, the City terminated Helget, and she initiated this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against the City, City Manager Toby Dougherty, and Police Chief Donald Scheibler, alleging they violated her First Amendment rights. Helget claims they terminated her in retaliation for her voluntarily providing an affidavit in support of a former police officer’s wrongful-termination litigation against the City.
*1219The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the…
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