Legal Opinion
Henry Lyons v. F. Wayne Vaught
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 24, 2015No. 14-1623PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Henry Lyons taught a self-developed course for seven semesters as a part-time lecturer at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC). He was not offered a position for the Spring 2012 semester and his course was dropped from UMKC’s course catalog. Lyons brought this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 damage action in state court against three UMKC administrators, alleging unlawful retaliation in violation of his First Amendment free speech rights as a public employee. Defendants removed and moved to dismiss, arguing the Petition for Damages failed to allege that they were personally…
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