Eves v. LePage
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This court took this case en banc, which then caused the withdrawal of the panel opinion, Eves v. LePage , 842 F.3d 133 (1st Cir. 2016), while we reconsidered the case. A divided panel there had affirmed the district court's dismissal of this First Amendment retaliation suit brought by the then-Speaker of Maine's House of Representatives, Mark Eves, against the then-Governor of Maine, Paul LePage. Eves alleged that, while governor, LePage leveraged discretionary state funding, in a yet unpassed state budget, to coerce an organization, Good Will-Hinckley ("GWH"), to…
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