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WITHIAM v. BAPTIST HEALTH CARE OF OKLAHOMA, INC.

Nos. 95-6265, 95-6313 and 95-6440.

98 F.3d 581 (1996)

Catherine L. WITHIAM, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BAPTIST HEALTH CARE OF OKLAHOMA, INC.; Roland Gee, Defendants-Appellants, and Logan Hospital and Medical Center Authority; Joel Tate; Kenny Davis, Defendants. Catherine L. WITHIAM, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BAPTIST HEALTH CARE OF OKLAHOMA, INC.; Logan Hospital and Medical Center Authority; Roland Gee; Kenny Davis, Defendants, and Joel Tate, Defendant-Appellant. Catherine L. WITHIAM, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BAPTIST HEALTH CARE OF OKLAHOMA, INC.; Roland Gee, Defendants-Appellants, and Logan Hospital and Medical Center Authority; Joel Tate; Kenny Davis, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

October 18, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Kearney, Gable & Gotwals, Edmond, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Jack S. Dawson, James A. Scimeca, and Leslie L. Lynch, Miller, Dollarhide, Dawson, & Shaw, Oklahoma City, OK, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before ANDERSON, LOGAN, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs civil rights claims were premised on an alleged retaliatory termination by her employer, a hospital management company. The primary question presented is whether an employee's public endorsement of a particular company to manage a public hospital constitutes speech entitled to First Amendment protection. The speech in question is not of sufficient public concern to warrant such protection as the premise of a retaliatory termination...

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