LEE v. NICHOLL

No. 98-1359.

197 F.3d 1291 (1999)

Tyrone L. LEE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John NICHOLL; Jeannie Jolly; James Grant, Individually and as Road and Bridge Superintendent of the Arapahoe County Department of Highways and Engineering; James Hinkle, Individually and as Assistant Road and Bridge Superintendent of the Arapahoe County Department of Highways and Engineering, Defendants, and William Gibbs, Individually and as Director of Arapahoe County Department of Highways and Engineering; Arapahoe County Board of County Commissioners; Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

December 1, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Cary Unkelbach (Kathryn L. Schroeder with him on the briefs), Arapahoe County Attorney's Office, Littleton, Colorado, for Defendants-Appellants.

John Kokish (Brian Kidnay with him on the briefs), Castle Rock, Colorado, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before SEYMOUR, Chief Judge; PORFILIO and KELLY, Circuit Judges.


PORFILIO, Senior Circuit Judge.

William Gibbs and the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) for Arapahoe County appeal the district court's disposition of a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim brought by a former county employee, Tyrone Lee. Believing he had been terminated in retaliation for exercising his First Amendment right to free speech, Mr. Lee sued the Board of County Commissioners both as a body and individually as well as his direct supervisors in their individual...

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