Legal Opinion
Lowery v. Jefferson County Board of Education
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 12, 2009No. 07-6324PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Three parents and their lawyer filed this § 1983 action under the First and Fourteenth Amendments after being denied permission to make a repeat appearance before the Board of Education of Jefferson County, Tennessee. The district court refused to overturn a jury verdict in favor of the defendants and awarded attorney’s fees to the defendants. We affirm the jury’s verdict, but we reverse the court’s grant of attorney’s fees.
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Jeff Lowery, Lisa Lowery and Randy Giles are parents of children who used to play on the Jefferson County High School football team. In…
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