Annette Thomas v. City of Beaverton Linda Adlard Sandra Miller

How courts have described this case

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• holding that sufficient evidence of causation existed where adverse employment action occurred seven weeks after protected activity
• holding that a public employee’s expressive conduct in support of a co-worker in her personnel dispute was a matter of public concern because it helped expose potential government misconduct
• holding that a genuine issue of material fact existed as to whether speech addressed a matter of public concern when an employee expressed disapproval of her employer’s allegedly unlawful treatment of another employee
• explaining that an employee’s speech can be protected even though it “concerned a personnel matter” because “it did not pertain to [her] own job status”
• holding that a genuine issue of material fact existed as to whether speech addressed a matter of public concern when an employee expressed 6 disapproval of her employer’s allegedly unlawful treatment of another employee
• finding that “[u]nlawful conduct by a government employee or illegal activity within a government agency is a matter of public concern”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).