# Ayers v. Western Line Consolidated School District

> Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · July 18, 1977 · 555 F.2d 1309

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8902153

## Case

- **Full name:** Henry B. AYERS v. WESTERN LINE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT v. Ms. Bessie B. GIVHAN, Plaintiffs-Intervenors
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- **Decided:** July 18, 1977
- **Citations:** 555 F.2d 1309; 18 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1407; 14 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 7767; 1977 U.S. App. LEXIS 12413
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Roney
- **Judges:** Gewin, Roney
- **Cited by:** 26 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Reversed on other grounds by Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District, 439 U.S. 410 (1979).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8902153

## Opinion text

RONEY, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
I concur in the result reached by Judge Gewin in this case. I think that there are probably many occasions when First Amendment constitutional protection will reach private expression by a public employee, but I agree that the district court erred in casting this case in the First Amendment terms.

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