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061700P.pdf   02/02/2007  Michael Bearden  v.  Dudley Lemon
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-1700
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Batesville   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Melloy and Benton, Circuit
   Judges]
   Civil case - civil rights. District court did not err in denying defendant's
   motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity as there was
   a genuine issue of fact as to whether plaintiff was fired from his position
   on the basis of protected speech; argument that defendant would have
   fired plaintiff anyway based on legitimate grounds is beyond the scope of
   an interlocutory appeal on qualified immunity grounds as it raises issues
   of sufficiency of the evidence; claim raised for the first time in the reply
   brief will be stricken.