Baldassare v. The State Of New Jersey

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• holding that an internal investigator's statement about other employees' alleged criminal actions \falls squarely within the core public speech delineated in Connick \ even though his job duties included exposing wrongdoing
• recognizing that speech pertaining to fraud, illegality and corruption of government agencies is a matter of public concern
• finding that the employee’s demotion before he spoke “belie[d] a comparison to the undoing of a ‘close working, relationship’ in Sprague ”
• stating that determinations under the first step of the retaliation analysis present questions of law for the court, whereas the latter two determinations present questions for the fact finder
• holding public employee's conduct and expression in internal investigation of employees at county prosecutor's office to expose potential wrongdoing constituted matter of public concern
• noting that, to qualify for protection, a public employee’s speech “must involve a matter of public concern”

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