United States Tenth Circuit

The allegation that the local sheriff's department withdrew a lesser ticket and charged the plaintiff with more severe infractions after he threatened to file a civil rights lawsuit states an adequate claim of undue retaliation even if suspect filed the lawsuit anyway.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/05/2001
• Published 09/05/2001

Judges

• McKAY, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR and McKAY, Circuit Judges, and BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael W. Lilley and Kyle W. Gesswein, Lilley Law Office, Las Cruces, NM, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Leonard J. Piazza, Sandenaw, Carrillo & Piazza, P.C., Las Cruces, NM, for Defendants-Appellees.