MEEKER v. EDMUNDSON

No. 04-2301.

415 F.3d 317 (2005)

James R. MEEKER; Deborah A. Meeker; James Robert Meeker, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. William Henderson EDMUNDSON, II, individually and as an employee of the Wayne County Board of Education, Defendant-Appellant, and Richard Gene Sauls, as an employee of the Wayne County Board of Education; Steven D. Taylor, as Superintendent of the Wayne County Schools; George E. Moye, Jr., as Chairman of the Wayne County Board of Education; Wayne County Board of Education, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 13, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Deborah R. Stagner, Tharrington, Smith, L.L.P., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant. Thomas Franklin Loflin, III, Loflin & Loflin, Durham, North Carolina, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Jonathan A. Blumberg, Tharrington, Smith, L.L.P., Raleigh, North Carolina; Ann S. Estridge, Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog, L.L.P., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant. Glenn A. Barfield, Barnes, Braswell & Haithcock, P.A., Goldsboro, North Carolina, for Appellees.

Before MOTZ and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge:


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Motz wrote the opinion, in which Judge Gregory and Senior Judge Hamilton joined.

DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge:

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