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Board of Regents of State of Florida v. Snyder

27 Fla. L. Weekly D1634 (Fla. 2nd DCA , July 19, 2002)

Former USF professor alleged that his First Amendment rights were violated by the Board of Regents when they engaged in alleged acts of retaliation following his complaints to the Florida Ethics Commission regarding certain university affairs. The court followed the well established precedent that a state and its agencies are immune from 42 U.S.C. 1983 suits. Qualified immunity attached to the government actors because the plaintiff

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