United States Tenth Circuit

College board's censure of trustee for publicly opposing board decision does not violate trustee's First Amendment rights because the censure did not carry any sanction other than board's opinion disagreeing with trustee.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/19/2000
• Published 12/19/2000

Judges

• TACHA, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, Chief Judge, TACHA, and EBEL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bernard Q. Phelan,Phelan-Watson Law Offices, Cheyenne, WY, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Ira M. Shepard, Paul M. Heylman, and Trina L. Fairley, Schmeltzer, Aptaker & Shepard, P.C., Washington, DC;  John A. Coppede and Michelle Pinkowski, Rothgerber, Johnson & Lyons, LLP, Cheyenne, WY, filed an Amicus Curiae brief on behalf of the Association of Community College Trustees.


• For Appellees:
  
• Henry F. Bailey, Jr. (Wallace L. Stock, with him on the brief), Bailey & Stock, Cheyenne, WY, for Defendants-Appellees.