Ben Markos v. City of Atlanta, Texas Mike Dupree and Michael Ahrens

How courts have described this case

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• holding that speech that alleged a police cover up of an officer’s use of excessive force involved a matter of public concern
• holding that a police sergeant’s speech about the cover-up of a potential excessive-force incident raised a matter of public concern
• holding that speech made to a newspaper reporter with clear understanding it would be published was of public form, and noting “the importance of the form in ascertaining whether speech is of public concern.”
• finding that \a public employee speaking out about alleged corruption in the police department\ is \a subject undoubtedly of public concern\
• noting that the form of the plaintiff’s speech was “quintessentially public as his comments appeared in the form of an article in the local newspaper”
• explaining that while a speaker-employee’s motivation does not supplant the three factors delineated in Connick v. Myers, it is relevant to the inquiry

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).