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LOWERY v. JEFFERSON COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

No. 07-6324.

586 F.3d 427 (2009)

Jeff LOWERY, Lisa Lowery, Randy Giles and Michael Kelley, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. JEFFERSON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, Doug Moody and Greg Sharpe, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: November 12, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: G. Mark Mamantov, Bass, Berry & Sims, PLC, Knoxville, Tennessee, Michael S. Kelley, Kennerly, Montgomery & Finley, P.C., Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellants. Linda J. Hamilton Mowles, Lewis, King, Krieg & Waldrop, P.C., Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: G. Mark Mamantov, Bass, Berry & Sims, PLC, Knoxville, Tennessee, Michael S. Kelley, Kennerly, Montgomery & Finley, P.C., Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellants. Linda J. Hamilton Mowles, Lewis, King, Krieg & Waldrop, P.C., Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellees.

Before KEITH, SUTTON and WHITE, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

Three parents and their lawyer filed this § 1983 action under the First and Fourteenth Amendments after being denied permission to make a repeat appearance before the Board of Education of Jefferson County, Tennessee. The district court refused to overturn a jury verdict in favor of the defendants and awarded attorney's fees to the defendants. We affirm the jury's verdict, but we reverse the court's grant of attorney's...

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