United States Tenth Circuit

In an action bringing federal civil-rights and state-law claims against the City of Laramie, Wyoming, based on plaintiff's termination as police chief, a denial of summary judgment for defendant is affirmed in part where: 1) not only was speech alleging that the police chief misused city funds ordinarily speech on a matter of public concern, but so, too, was speech defending against such allegations; and 2) the court of appeals could not rule in defendant's favor without reversing the district court's determination that there was a factual dispute regarding her state of mind.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/24/2010
• Published 08/24/2010

Judges

• Harris M. Hartz

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• M. Gregory Weisz, Charles M. Aron