Legal Opinion
Fowler v. Carrollton Public Library
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 12, 1986No. 85-1148PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH HOLLAN JONES, Circuit Judge:
This judgment in this complex lawsuit is REVERSED and REMANDED for a new trial.
In the city library of Carrollton, Texas, a petty satrapy appended to the local government, personality conflicts and disagreement over small matters of principle and perquisite festered during 1981-82. Appel-lee-Cross-Appellant Fowler, hired in 1978 at the age of 58 as the children’s librarian and assistant director, was at the center of the vortex. Lauded in the state of Texas as an outstanding children’s librarian and particularly popular in Carrollton as a story teller who…
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- Parratt v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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