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Gonzalez v. Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District

District Court, S.D. Texas

Decided March 7, 2015No. Civil No. 1:14-CV-57PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HILDA G. TAGLE, Senior District Judge.

In this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Abel Gonzalez (Gonzalez) brings claims against his former employer, the Harlingen Independent School District (“the District”), for violations of his First Amendment free-speech rights and his right to procedural due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. He alleges that he followed a link in an e-mail message from the Huffington Post to its Facebook page and posted a comment containing the n-word beneath a picture of President Obama ostensibly as a proposed…

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