United States Tenth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state law action brought against a city and individual employees, grant of qualified immunity to defendants-city and employees is affirmed where as a matter of law, defendants' actions in rejecting plaintiff's requests for council packets, limiting his speaking time at a city council meeting, and filing a declaratory judgment suit against him did not violate his First Amendment rights or amount to unconstitutional retaliation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/17/2007
• Published 12/18/2007

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, BALDOCK, and BRISCOE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark T. Hamby, Bonham & Howard, P.L.L.C., Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas A. LeBlanc, (Matthew B. Free, and J. Spencer Bryan, Best & Sharp, and James C. Hodges, Eller & Detrich, on the brief), Tulsa, OK, for Defendants-Appellees.