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HASKINS v. CITY OF BOAZ

No. 86-7174.

822 F.2d 1014 (1987)

M.T. HASKINS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF BOAZ, a municipal corp.; Billy B. Dyar, individually and as Mayor of Boaz; Marrell White, individually and as councilman for the City of Boaz; J.T. Underwood, individually and as councilman for the City of Boaz; Marion Jackson, individually and as councilman for the City of Boaz; James Langley, individually and as councilman for the City of Boaz, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 27, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beddow, Fullan & Vowell, P.A., Albert C. Bowen, Jr., J. Scott Vowell, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants-appellants.

Charles A. McGee, Fort Payne, Ala., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HILL, KRAVITCH and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Plaintiff-appellee M.T. Haskins filed this suit under 42 U.S.C.A. sec. 1983, alleging that his first amendment right to freedom of speech was violated when the various defendants-appellants (hereinafter the City)1 removed Haskins from his at-will position as assistant chief of police of Boaz, Alabama. A jury agreed, and this appeal ensued. We affirm.

Although the City raises...

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