United States Tenth Circuit

Under 42 USC 1983, a jury finding that public employee would have been fired even if she did not engage in 1st Amendment protected speech precludes any recovery by plaintiff and does not merely offset damages.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/29/2001
• Published 01/29/2001

Judges

• McKAY, Circuit Judge., Before BRORBY, McKAY, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Terry Todd,Leslie C. Weeks, and Elizabeth Hall of Rodolf & Todd, Tulsa, OK, for Defendant-Appellant., James G. Wilcoxen of Wilcoxen & Wilcoxen, Muskogee, OK, and Nathan H. Young, III, of Tahlequah, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellee.