JONES v. COLLINS

No. 96-41192.

132 F.3d 1048 (1998)

Ethel JONES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gary COLLINS, Superintendent of Texarkana Independent School District, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 12, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Bradley Hancock, Laurence W. Watts, Watts & Associates, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Ronald S. Scott, Christopher Blewer Gilbert, Tracie Jo Renfroe, Bracewell & Patterson, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before KING, DUHÉ and WIENER, Circuit Judges.


KING, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-appellant Gary Collins, the superintendent of Texarkana Independent School District, appeals the district court's partial denial of his motion for summary judgment on the ground that a fact issue exists as to whether he possesses qualified immunity from liability for plaintiff-appellee Ethel Jones's claim, asserted under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, that Collins violated her First Amendment rights. Because we find that the evidence in the...

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