DOWNING v. WILLIAMS

No. 78-2869.

624 F.2d 612 (1980)

Lloyd L. DOWNING, M. D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. R. Allen WILLIAMS, Superintendent, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 21, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Buckley, Texarkana, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

Martha H. Allan, Lonny F. Zwiener, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before TUTTLE, AINSWORTH and SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by a plaintiff physician from a jury verdict for the defendants in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit for damages and injunctive relief in which the physician alleged that his procedural due process and first amendment rights had been violated. We reverse the judgment.

Lloyd Downing was the only staff psychiatrist at the San Angelo Center, a Texas state mental health and mental retardation facility. It appears that over the...

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