Legal Opinion
Douglas M. Jones v. Richard A. Heyman
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 22, 1989No. 88-5858PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Per curiam
This appeal arises from an action that Douglas M. Jones, a citizen of the city of Key West, Florida, filed against Key West’s former mayor, Richard Heyman, and the City of Key West. 1 Jones claimed that the mayor and the city violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights when Jones was silenced and removed from a public meeting of the Key West City Commission. The district court agreed and awarded Jones compensatory and punitive damages. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
On February 5, 1985, Jones attended a meeting of the Key West City Commission. As the mayor of…
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