MUIR v. DECATUR COUNTY, IOWA

No. 18-1057.

917 F.3d 1050 (2019)

Tamela MUIR, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DECATUR COUNTY, IOWA; Ben Boswell, Sheriff, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: March 8, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Walter Foley , MELLON & SPIES, Iowa City, IA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Carlton G. Salmons , MACRO & KOZLOWSKI LLP, West Des Moines, IA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before LOKEN, MELLOY, and ERICKSON, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiff Tamela Muir was fired by the acting Decatur County Sheriff, Ben Boswell, shortly after her husband, Bert Muir, had been removed as Sheriff. Tamela alleges that Boswell fired her simply because she was married to Bert and that Boswell therefore violated her First Amendment right to intimate association. Boswell and...

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