United States Tenth Circuit

Deposition corrections are subject to a "sham affidavit" analysis, and a Native American failed to show a genuine issue of material fact as to whether his termination was racially motivated in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, or intended to punish speech protected by the First Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/03/2003
• Published 06/03/2003

Judges

• LUCERO, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, BALDOCK and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Deanne Watts Hay (Stanley R. Parker with her on the briefs), Parker & Hay, L.L.P., Topeka, KS, for the Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Steven Pigg, Fisher, Patterson, Sayler & Smith, L.L.P., Topeka, KS, for the Defendants-Appellees.