BELYEU v. COOSA COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

No. 92-6229.

998 F.2d 925 (1993)

Jackie M. BELYEU, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COOSA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION; Larry K. Hardman, individually and in his official capacity as Superintendent of Education; Robert S. Smith; Claude Bain Culver; Louis B. Childs; James C. Newberry and Charles F. Ward, individually and in their official capacities as members of the Coosa County Board of Education, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 25, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theron Stokes, Alabama Educ. Ass'n, Kenneth L. Thomas, Cynthia W. Clinton, Thomas, Means & Gillis, Montgomery, AL, Michael D. Simpson, Nat. Educ. Ass'n, Washington, DC, for plaintiff-appellant.

Frank S. Teel, Teel & Teel, Rockford, AL, for defendants-appellees.

Before BIRCH, Circuit Judge, CLARK, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOEVELER, Senior District Judge.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

In Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 U.S. 563, 88 S.Ct. 1731, 20 L.Ed.2d 811 (1968), the Supreme Court formulated a balancing test to resolve conflicts between the interest of a public employee in free speech and that of a government employer in regulating the conduct of its employees. In this case, we are required to apply Pickering to determine whether a public school system violated the first...

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