Legal Opinion
Eaton v. Meneley
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 3, 2004No. 03-3215PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant David Meneley, the former sheriff of Shawnee County, Kansas, appeals the district court’s denial of his defense of qualified immunity. * Plaintiffs-appellees Janet Price, Patricia McClellan, and Kenneth Eaton brought suit against Meneley under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and various state statutes for allegedly violating their First Amendment rights by misusing his position as sheriff to defeat their petition drive to have him removed from office. Meneley had run the plaintiffs’ names through a computer system available only to law enforcement personnel to…
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