Case: Individual Employment Rights/First Amendment (N.D. Ala.)

A federal district court partially denied a motion to dismiss First Amendment retaliation claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 brought by a senior instructor and his wife against University of Alabama officials, allowing their claim for prospective injunctive relief to proceed because the statute of limitations defense was premature at the pleading stage, though dismissing individual capacity claims on qualified immunity grounds.

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