Legal Opinion
Breaux v. City of Garland
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 15, 2000No. 98-10638PublishedCited by 189 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
This case involves the First Amendment retaliation claims of two police officers against the City of Garland (“City”), its former Police Chief, and its former City Manager. Officers Allen Breaux and Joe Ambrogio (the “Plaintiffs”) argue that Terry Hensley and Ron Holifield (the “individual Defendants”), and later the City, violated 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by retaliating against the Plaintiffs for making public allegations of corruption in the Garland Police Department.
The jury found the individual Defendants liable, and even after a large remitti-tur was accepted by the…
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