United States Eleventh Circuit

In case where plaintiff high school principal alleges that defendant school board violated the First Amendment when it terminated him in retaliation for his efforts to convert his school to a charter school, judgment as a matter of law against plaintiff is affirmed where plaintiff's efforts to convert the school were not undertaken as a citizen and his associational activity is not protected by the First Amendment. (On Rehearing)

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/29/2007
• Published 08/29/2007

Judges

• PRYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before PRYOR, KRAVITCH and ALARCÓN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William John Cook, Ryan Christopher Rodems, Barker, Rodems & Cook, P.A., Tampa, FL, for D'Angelo., Thad M. Guyer, T.M. Guyer & Ayers & Friends, P.C., Medford, OR, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dabney Loy Conner, Sean Riley Parker, Warren Andrew Crawford, Boswell & Dunlap, LLP, Bartow, FL, for Defendant-Appellee.