United States Sixth Circuit

ROSE v. STEPHENS, 00-6542

Summary judgment for the Secretary of Kentucky's Justice Cabinet was proper in a police commissioner's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim, for termination in violation of the First Amendment, where a memorandum written by plaintiff (which he refused to withdraw) was not protected speech under the First Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/21/2002
• Decided 06/03/2002
• Published 06/03/2002

Judges

• Before NORRIS, SILER, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bernard Pafunda (argued and briefed), Pafunda Law Offices, Lexington, KY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sheryl G. Snyder (argued and briefed), David L. Hoskins (briefed), Frost, Brown & Todd, Louisville, KY, for Defendant-Appellee.