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WALJE v. CITY OF WINCHESTER, KY.

No. 84-5769.

773 F.2d 729 (1985)

Richard WALJE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The CITY OF WINCHESTER, KENTUCKY; Gentry Jones, individually and in his official capacity as Chief of the Fire Department of Winchester, Kentucky; Bruce M. Graham, Jr., individually and in his official capacity as City Manager of the City of Winchester, Kentucky; and Mike McGuire, individually and in his official capacity as City Commissioner of the City of Winchester, Kentucky, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 30, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Frith Stewart, argued, Segal, Isenberg, Sales & Stewart, Louisville, Ky., for plaintiff-appellant.

Edsel T. Jones, Winchester, Ky., George F. Rabe, argued, Clay, Williamson, Rabe, Mayre & Cowden, Lexington, Ky., for defendants-appellees.

Before KEITH and MERRITT, Circuit Judges, and DOWD, District Judge.

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

In this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the District Court found that the defendant City of Winchester and various of its city officials had violated plaintiff Richard Walje's First Amendment right to free speech and assembly by suspending him as a Winchester firefighter in retaliation for making public statements expressing the firefighters' grievances over pay and working conditions. The District...

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