COLE v. BUCHANAN COUNTY SCHOOL BD.

No. 1:07CV00001.

504 F.Supp.2d 81 (2007)

Earl F. COLE, Plaintiff, v. BUCHANAN COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Virginia, Abingdon Division.

August 21, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Bragg, Bragg Law PLC, Abingdon, VA, for Plaintiff.

Jim H. Guynn, Jr., Guynn, Memmer & Dillon, P.C., Roanoke, VA, and Thomas R. Scott, Jr., Street Law Firm, LLP, Grundy, VA, for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

JAMES P. JONES, Chief Judge.

In this case, a newspaper reporter seeks damages and declaratory and injunctive relief after a local school board barred him from entering school property because he wrote articles critical of the school administration. I find that the individual school board members are not entitled to legislative immunity from suit and that a sufficient First Amendment retaliation claim has been pleaded.

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