United States Fifth Circuit

Where an assistant district attorney failed to show that the district attorney violated his First Amendment right to free speech on alleging a political discharge, denial of qualified immunity to the district attorney in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action was improper.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/01/2002
• Published 10/01/2002

Judges

• E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ellis Pete Adams, Jr., Martin Kevin Maley, LA Dist. Attys. Ass'n, Baton Rouge, LA, for Louisiana Dist. Attorneys Ass'n, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lawrence K. Burleigh, Sr.,Lawrence Keith Burleigh, Jr., Lafayette, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Gary J. Russo, Camille B. Poche', Joel Paul Babineaux, Perret Doise, Lafayette, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.