United States Eleventh Circuit

A doctor may assert a claim for retaliation for his speaking out on matters of public concern, under 42 U.S.S. section 1983, where a healthcare authority's refusal to renew a contract amounted to termination of a pre-existing and ongoing commercial relationship.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/04/2002
• Published 09/04/2002

Judges

• EDMONDSON, Chief Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and CARNES and SILER , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Mark White,White, Dunn & Booker, Andrew C. Allen, Whatley Drake, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marjorie P. Slaughter, Birmingham, AL, William J. Donald, Donald, Randall, Donald & Tipton, Tuscaloosa, AL, Edward R. Jackson and Richard E. Fikes, Jasper, AL, Mark W. Lee, Parsons, Lee & Juliano, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.