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RANKIN v. INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST. NO. I-3

No. 87-1751.

876 F.2d 838 (1989)

Johnny Lee RANKIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. I-3, NOBLE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, Bob J. Piguet, individually and in his official capacity as Superintendent of Independent School District No. I-3, Noble County, Oklahoma, Donald J. Green, Byron A. Phipps, Kenneth D. Caswell, each of them, individually and in their official capacities as Members of the Board of Education of Independent School District No. I-3, Noble County, Oklahoma, Donald W. Doyle, Edward Roberson, in their official capacities only as Members of the Board of Education of Independent School District No. I-3, Noble County, Oklahoma, Defendant-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

June 2, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander L. Meszaros (James B. Browne, James B. Browne and Associates, Oklahoma City, Okl., with him on the brief), Lexington, Ky., for plaintiff-appellant.

Stephen Jones (Craig Bryant, Jones, Bryant & Nigh, Enid, Okl., John Gladd and Oliver W. Arbogast of Gibbon, Gladd & Associates, Tulsa, Okl. with them on the brief) of Jones, Bryant & Nigh, Enid, Okl., for defendants-appellees.

Before McKAY, BARRETT, and SEYMOUR, Circuit Judges.

SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge.

Johnny Lee Rankin brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) against Independent School District Number I-3, the District Superintendent, and members of the District school board. Rankin, a tenured teacher employed by the District, alleged that the nonrenewal of his teaching contract violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights by punishing him for the exercise of his right to free speech, and by depriving him of his liberty...

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