United States Eleventh Circuit

Denial of municipal defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law in a civil rights suit involving property development is reversed where plaintiffs did not proffer sufficient evidence for a reasonable jury to find that defendant's final policymaker acted in violation of plaintiffs' First Amendment rights, or that plaintiffs' Equal Protection rights were violated.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/06/2006
• Published 01/06/2006

Judges

• FORRESTER, District Judge:, Before CARNES and PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and FORRESTER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Howard Edgar Howard, Ford, Howard & Cornett, P.C., Jack Lee Roberts, Jr., Turnbach, Warren, Roberts & Lloyd, P.C., Gadsden, AL, for Defendant-Appellant., Sam Heldman, Gardner, Middlebrooks, Gibbons & Kittrell, Washington, DC, Gayle H. Gear, William M. Dawson, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.