United States Eighth Circuit

Dismissal of a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 brought by a demoted highway patrol officer claiming that defendants violated his First Amendment rights by retaliating against him for opposing proposed changes in patrol policy is reversed in part as to certain defendants where plaintiff had made out a prima facie showing of retaliation, and the district court erred in granting summary judgment on a basis not raised by defendants.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

• BYE, Circuit Judge., Before BYE, HEANEY, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ferne P. Wolf, argued, St. Louis, Missouri (D. Eric Sowers), on the brief.


• For Appellees:
  
• Theodore Allan Bruce, Assistant Attorney General, Jefferson City, Missouri (Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, on the brief), for appellee.