AEBISHER v. RYAN

No. 691, Docket 79-7591.

622 F.2d 651 (1980)

Mildred AEBISHER and Muriel Gruff, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Bernard RYAN, individually and in his official capacity as Principal, Oldfield Junior High School, Harborfields Central School District, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 2, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy E. Hoffman, New York City (James R. Sandner, New York City, on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Lawrence W. Reich, Garden City, N. Y. (Wager, Winick, Ginsberg, Ehrlich, Reich & Hoffman, Garden City, N. Y., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before OAKES, VAN GRAAFEILAND and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.


VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

The issue in this case is whether appellees, public school officials, have violated the First Amendment rights of appellants, public school teachers, by reprimanding them for speaking to the press. We believe that appellants' claims of First Amendment violations created genuine issues of material fact which precluded the granting of summary judgment in appellees' favor and reverse the judgment summarily entered below.

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