MANSOOR v. TRANK

No. 02-1277.

319 F.3d 133 (2003)

Karl MANSOOR, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mark TRANK, Counsel for the County of Albemarle in his official and individual capacity; John Miller, Chief of the Albemarle County Police Department, in his official and individual capacity; Richard Douglas Rhoads, Captain of the Albemarle County Police Department, in his official and individual capacity, Defendants-Appellants, and County of Albemarle, Virginia; Robert M. Tucker, Administrator of the County of Albemarle, in his official and individual capacity; Larry Davis, Counsel for the County of Albemarle, in his official and individual capacity; Cynthia Favret, in her individual capacity, Defendants. The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, Amicus Supporting Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 4, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Mark Dudley Obenshain, Keeler Obenshain, P.C., Harrisonburg, Virginia, for Appellants. Neal Lawrence Walters, Scott & Kroner, P.C., Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Deborah C. Wyatt, Wyatt & Associates, P.L.C., Charlottesville, Virginia; Barbara S. Jenkins, Jenkins & Rhea, P.L.C., Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellee. Robert M. O'Neil, J. Joshua Wheeler, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Amicus Curiae.

Before WILKINS and MOTZ, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILKINS and Senior Judge HAMILTON joined.

OPINION

DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge.

Karl Mansoor, a police officer in Albemarle County, Virginia, brought this § 1983 action against the County and six individuals, contending that they conspired to deprive him of his First Amendment free speech rights. See

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