United States Fifth Circuit

In a suit alleging due-process, equal-protection, and First Amendment violations by a county and its sheriff for the removal of plaintiffs from a roster of approved bail bond agents, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) defendant-sheriff was entitled to qualified immunity on the ground that he had not violated any clearly established constitutional rights of plaintiffs; 2) remand was necessary for a determination of whether defendant-county had violated any constitutional rights; and 3) plaintiffs presented evidence sufficient to raise triable factual issues on their equal-protection and First Amendment claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/18/2008
• Published 09/18/2008

Judges

• SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, HIGGINBOTHAM and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James David Harper (argued), Stroud & Harper, Southaven, MS, William Benjamin Ryan, Donati Law Firm, Memphis, TN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Samuel Hill (argued), Stephen Pierce Spencer, Mitchell, McNutt & Sams, Tupelo, MS, for Defendants-Appellees.