Joe Harold Williams v. Lloyd Eaton, as Football Coach of the University of Wyoming

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• finding plaintiff football players stated claim for First Amendment retaliation against football coach who dismissed them from the football team for wearing armbands in peaceful and symbolic protest of racial discrimination
• “[I]f plaintiffs establish a violation of Federal constitutional rights and entitlement to relief under the Federal civil rights acts, the Wyoming Constitution may not immunize the defendants and override the Federal constitutional principles....”
• “[I]f plaintiffs establish a violation of Federal constitutional rights and entitlement to relief under the Federal civil rights acts, the Wyoming Constitution may not immunize the defendants and override the Federal constitutional principles . . . .”
• Wyoming courts have exclusive jurisdiction

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