Beverly Glen Hospital v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that courts \may consider the employee's attempts to make the concerns public\
• noting that part of the plaintiff’s speech in issue was “about her co-worker’s plight”
• holding there was a material question of fact about whether conditions were intolerable where male supervisor (1) repeatedly invited female employee out; (2) directed several inappropriate and suggestive remarks at employee; (3
• holding public employee’s complaints about alleged sexual harassment and filing of a charge of discrimination with the Georgia Office of Fair Employment Practices did not constitute speech which could be fairly characterized as speech on a matter of public concern
• explaining that even though the plaintiff “did speak about her co-worker’s [experience of sexual harassment], which contain[ed] a public concern aspect . . ., the main thrust of her speech took the form of a private employee grievance”
• finding plaintiff’s sexual harassment complaints not matters of public concern when plaintiff did not make her complaints public or involve the public

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).