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SIMS v. METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY

No. 91-5932.

972 F.2d 1230 (1992)

Willie E. SIMS, Jr., Individually and in his capacity as a Minister of the Gospel and as a classified employee of Metropolitan Dade County, Florida, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, Defendant, Joaquin Avino, Individually and as County Manager, Ari Sosa, Individually and as Director of the Department of Community Affairs and Lloyd Major, Individually and as Assistant Director of the Department of Community Affairs, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 18, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee Kraftchick, Asst. Co. Atty., Miami, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Jesse J. McCrary, Jr., McCrary & Dove, Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Mark King Leban, Miami, Fla., amicus-ACLU of Florida.

Before KRAVITCH and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge.

BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge:

Willie Sims filed this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that he was unlawfully suspended from government employment for exercising his First Amendment rights. He sued his employer, Metropolitan Dade County, and three supervisory employees of Dade County, Joaquin Avino, Ari Sosa, and Lloyd Major, in their individual and official capacities. Avino, Sosa, and Major, exclusively in their individual capacities, moved for summary...

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