Braddy v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a police officer spoke as a public employee when he shared complaints “only with his employer, and the complaints focused exclusively on official misconduct by his fellow officers”
• “[A] plaintiff must show that the government distinctly altered his legal status in addition to tarnishing his good name.” (citation omitted)
• “A police officer’s duty to report official police misconduct is a basic part of the job.”
• plaintiff’s speech was unprotected where plaintiff “shared the complaints only with his employer, and the complaints focused exclusively on official misconduct by his fellow officers”
• where a police officer complained to his employer about racial profiling and unlawful disciplinary action within the force
• officer’s two internal reports of officer misconduct were made within scope of official duties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).