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LESLIE v. HANCOCK COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

No. 12-13628.

720 F.3d 1338 (2013)

Doctor Awanna LESLIE, Bettye Richardson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. HANCOCK COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, Gwendolyn Reeves, in her individual and official capacity as Superintendent of Hancock County Schools, Anthony Gilchrist, Denise Ransom, Annie Ingram, Azzalee Williams-Askew, Pamela Lawrence-Ingram, in their individual and official capacity as members of the Hancock County Board of Education, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 12, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell James Edwards , Law Office of Russell Edwards, Athens, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Phillip Leroy Hartley , Martha M. Pearson , Harben, Hartley & Hawkins, LLP, Gainesville, GA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before PRYOR and JORDAN, Circuit Judges, and PRO, District Judge.

PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to decide whether we have jurisdiction over an appeal of a newly elected local school board and whether its individual members violated the clearly established right to free speech of the superintendent of education and her assistant superintendent when the board terminated or demoted them for public comments about local tax policy. While Awanna Leslie served as the Superintendent of the Hancock County School System and...

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