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ROBERTS v. VAN BUREN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

No. 84-2244.

773 F.2d 949 (1985)

Estella ROBERTS and Bertha Burden, Appellants, v. VAN BUREN PUBLIC SCHOOLS; James R. Tate and James Starbird, Individually and as Superintendent and Principal of Van Buren Public Schools; Gene Neidecker, President; C.J. Franklin, Iverson Riggs, Ray Nelson, Darral Sparkman, Dr. Richard Darden, Otis Arnold, and Robert Daugherty, Individually and as Members of the Board of Directors of the Van Buren Public Schools, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 11, 1985.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied November 6, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcia Barnes, Little Rock, Ark., for appellants.

Ben Core, Fort Smith, Ark., for appellees.

Before ROSS and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges, and COLLINSON, Senior District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 6, 1985.

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Estella Roberts and Bertha Burden appeal a judgment entered on a jury verdict against them on their claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) that the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Directors impermissibly failed to renew their teaching contracts in retaliation for their exercise of their first amendment rights. The teachers argue that the district court erred in submitting...

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