United States Fifth Circuit

In a patrol officer's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against the city of Houston and its police chief for employment retaliation in violation of his First Amendment right to free speech, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where plaintiff's media statements and magazine articles were not protected by the First Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/19/2007
• Published 12/20/2007

Judges

• BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, GARZA and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Chad Tyler Hoffman (argued), Houston, Police Officers Union, Houston, TX, for Nixon.


• For Appellees:
  
• David M. Feldman (argued), Clay Thomas Grover, Feldman & Rogers, Robert Wayne Cowan, Bailey Perrin Bailey, Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.