City of Virginia Beach v. Nala Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that county manager’s “expectations . . . developed over nearly four decades in public service” justified termination where subsequent litigation revealed that local community would have protested failure to take decisive disciplinary action
• noting that there “are many ways to communicate ones’ thoughts, and the vulgar, derogatory phrases used by [the employee] weigh against him”
• holding in similar context that it was \reasonably possible\ that defendant's \swift action\ in launching an investigation that led to plaintiff's dismissal prevented actual disruption from occurring
• explaining that a reasonable possibility of adverse harm is all that is required
• upholding swift termination by county for racially insensitive on Facebook remarks where negative consequences were “reasonably possible” had officer remained employed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).