Legal Opinion
Janell Howard v. City of Coos Bay
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 25, 2017No. 14-35506PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether the former employee of a City in Oregon may prevail on allegations that it violated the First Amendment and state law by refusing to rehire her.
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Janell Howard served as the Finance Director for the City of Coos Bay (“City”) from 1998 through 2008. On September 16, 2008, after an investigation into whether Howard had shoplifted from Wal-Mart (from which no charges were filed), she was terminated from such position for cause.
Howard maintained that her firing was actually the result of a complaint she had brought in June 2007 before the…
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