YIELDING v. CROCKETT INDEPENDENT SCH. DIST.

No. 82-2010.

707 F.2d 196 (1983)

Herbert M. YIELDING, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CROCKETT INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bob Hall, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

J.B. Sallas, Crockett, Tex., Richard Brooks Hardee, Tyler, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before GOLDBERG, GEE and POLITZ, Circuit Judges.


GEE, Circuit Judge:

The issues raised by this appeal require us once again to enter the area of uneasy tension between a public employee's rights as a citizen and his employer's power to discharge him for unsatisfactory performance. Today's case concerns no liberty or property interest; Appellant Yielding had neither, as he concedes. Instead, he advances First Amendment claims falling within the other great division of such discharge cases. See Mt. Healthy City...

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