United States Tenth Circuit

In an action claiming that plaintiff's employer, a public hospital, fired her in retaliation for exercising her First Amendment rights, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where plaintiff's speech was unprotected because it was made pursuant to her official duties as a "Transplant Coordinator" in the hospital's Heart Transplant Unit.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/19/2010
• Published 02/19/2010

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, EBEL, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David A. Lane, Killmer, Lane & Newman, LLP, Denver, CO, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas S. Rice (Gillian M. Fahlsing with him on the brief), Senter Goldfarb & Rice, L.L.C., Denver, CO, for Appellees.