DIXON v. UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO

No. 12-3218.

702 F.3d 269 (2012)

Crystal DIXON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, Defendant, Lloyd Jacobs, individually and in his official capacity as President, University of Toledo; William Logie, individually and in his official capacity as Vice President for Human Resources and Campus Safety, University of Toledo, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: December 17, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Robert Joseph Muise , American Freedom Law Center, Ann Arbor, MI, for Appellant. Elizabeth M. Stanton , Taft Stettiniius & Hollister, LLP, Columbus, OH, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Robert Joseph Muise , American Freedom Law Center, Ann Arbor, MI, Erin Elizabeth Mersino , Thomas More Law Center, Ann Arbor, MI, James R. Acho , Cummings, McClorey, Davis & Acho, Livonia, MI, Thomas A. Sobecki , Toledo, OH, for Appellant. Elizabeth M. Stanton , Sarah D. Morrison , Donald C. Brey , Taft Stettiniius & Hollister, LLP, Columbus, OH, for Appellees.

Before: MOORE, GILMAN, and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.

In 2008, Plaintiff-Appellant Crystal Dixon, an African-American woman and then-interim Associate Vice President for Human Resources at the University of Toledo (the "University"), wrote an op-ed column in the Toledo Free Press rebuking comparisons drawn between the civil-rights and gay-rights movements. Shortly thereafter, Dixon was fired. Claiming violations of her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights,...

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