Legal Opinion
Donna Lowe v. Town of Fairland, Oklahoma Beverly Hill Don Jones Shirley Mangold and Loretta Vinyard
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided May 14, 1998No. 97-5028PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.
Defendants appeal the district court’s partial denial , of their motion to dismiss Plaintiff’s complaint for failure to state' a claim upon which relief can be granted. Defendants argue that the district court erred by (1) refusing to convert their Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss to a Fed.R.Civ.P. 56 motion for summary judgment and (2) denying their defense of qualified immunity.
Plaintiff is the former police chief of the Town of Fairland, Oklahoma. She was terminated from her position on April 6, 1995. The individual Defendants were members of the Fairland…
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