United States Tenth Circuit

Denial of plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction is affirmed where his First Amendment claims, alleging retaliatory termination, failed to establish substantial likelihood of success on the merits or irreparable injury sufficient to satisfy the preliminary injunction test.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/01/2005
• Published 11/01/2005

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, McKAY, and SEYMOUR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James M. Lyons (Kris J. Kostolansky and Craig R. Welling, with him on the briefs) of Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP, Denver, Colorado, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Donna R. Euben and Ann D. Springer of American Association of University Professors, Washington, D.C., and Seth A. Tucker and Edward M. Mathias of Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C. (Professor David M. Rabban, University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas, and Professor Robert M. O'Neil of University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, Of Counsel with them on the brief) filed a brief for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas S. Rice of Senter Goldfarb & Rice LLC, Denver, Colorado (David P. Temple, Special Assistant Attorney General, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, with him on the briefs), for Defendants-Appellees.