Decotiis v. Whittemore

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• directing us to look to Mt. Healthy only if the aforementioned \three parts of the inquiry are resolved in favor of the plaintiff\
• affirming the district court’s dismissal of the individual defendants on this ground on a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim
• “Applying the plausibility standard is ‘a context-specific task that requires the reviewing court to draw on its judicial experience and common sense.’ ” (quoting Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 679, 129 S.Ct. 1937)
• reversing grant of motion to dismiss where speech and language therapist spoke critically of a school with parents of children, where some contextual factors indicated citizen speech
• accepting public employer's argument concerning the \risk of disruption and efficiency\ based on its interest in \its ability to effectively communicate with the vulnerable population it serves\
• upholding dismissal of official-capacity defendant as redundant of the suit against local government agency

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).