PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
The executive director of a community action agency publicly denied that the county commissioners court had supervisory authority over his and his assistant's job performance. On his refusal to publicly retract the statement, the commissioners fired him. The commissioners appeal from a money judgment payable by the county entered after a bench trial upon a finding that the firing contravened the First Amendment. Finding that...
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