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003828P.pdf   11/05/2001  Joseph Washington  v.  Normandy Fire
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  00-3828
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   Civil Case - qualified immunity. Fire officials are not entitled to 
   summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity for civil 
   rights action alleging Assistant Fire Chief was demoted and 
   then terminated for exercising his First Amendment rights. 
   Fire officials did not show the speech in question had led or 
   would lead to disruption in the department. Denial of summary 
   judgment based on liability of one director who voted against 
   the demotion is reversed.