United States Second Circuit

In an action claiming that defendants unconstitutionally retaliated against plaintiff for his exercise of his right to free speech in violation of the First Amendment and violated his right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment when they removed him from his position as dean, a denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity is reversed where plaintiff had no clearly established right to remain as dean while voicing opposition to the policies of the team he was hired to be part of.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/17/2010
• Published 09/17/2010

Judges

• Pierre Leval

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen J. Fitzgerald, Margaret Q. Chapple