United States Eighth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against a city for retaliation under the First and Fourteenth Amendments arising from the city's allegedly denying plaintiff a contract in retaliation for an earlier arbitration, summary judgment for the city is affirmed where: 1) a public contractor's right-to-petition claim must involve a matter of public concern, just as a freedom-of-speech claim must; and 2) plaintiff did not allege that its earlier arbitration was a matter of public concern.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/03/2008
• Published 11/03/2008

Judges

• BENTON, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, BOWMAN and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ned A. Stewart, argued, Texarkana, AR, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Allen Mosley, argued, North Little Rock, AR, for appellees.