JACKSON v. STATE OF ALABAMA STATE TENURE COM'N

No. 04-10046.

405 F.3d 1276 (2005)

Rollen JACKSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE OF ALABAMA STATE TENURE COMMISSION, State of Alabama Board of Education, Peggy Connell, Superintendent of the Talladega Board of Education in her individual and in her official capacity, Defendants, Talladega County Board of Education, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 14, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Byron Renard Perkins, Birmingham, AL, Robert L. Wiggins, Jr., Wiggins, Childs, Quinn & Pantazis, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Hope T. Cannon, Donald B. Sweeney, Jr., Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, LLP, R. Brett Adair, Lehr, Middlebrooks, Price & Vreeland, P.C., David P. Condon, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before ANDERSON, CARNES and RONEY, Circuit Judges.


CARNES, Circuit Judge:

In 1996 the Talladega County Board of Education fired Rollen Jackson from his job as a welding instructor at Pittard Area Vocational High School. Shortly thereafter, Jackson filed a lawsuit in federal district court. In the eight years of litigation that followed, his case has been before four district court judges and two juries. It is now before this Court for the second and final time.

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Several incidents preceded Jackson...

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