United States Fifth Circuit

Summary judgment in favor of a city's housing authority on plaintiff-employee's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim alleging that defendant terminated him for speaking out on a matter of public concern is affirmed where defendant did not delegate final policymaking authority to plaintiff's superior, and plaintiff's alternative argument that she was the de facto policymaker for an area is rejected.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/18/2006
• Published 07/19/2006

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before SMITH, GARZA and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronald Lawrence Wilson (argued), New Orleans, LA, for Gelin., Rachel Wendt Wisdom (argued), Nicholas John Wehlen, Stone, Pigman, Walther & Wittmann, Greer E. Goff, Housing Auth. of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, for Housing Auth. of New Orleans.