Fourth Circuit· 2/2/1995

DiMeglio v. Haines

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45 F.3d 790
1995 WL 40583

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recognizing that speech by a public employee outside the workplace was made in the employee's official capacity
holding a municipal government employee's remarks may not be protected under Connick if he was speaking as an employee, rather than as a citizen
holding a municipal govern- ment employee’s remarks may not be protected under Connick if he was speaking as an employee, rather than as a citizen
noting that a court may dispose of a case on the ground that no constitutional violation occurred without addressing qualified immunity
stating that claim of retaliatory reassignment of zoning investigator \to a geographic subset of the very region from which he formerly had derived his zoning assignments\ \likely would not be sufficiently adverse to implicate the First Amendment\
stating that claim of retaliatory reassignment of zoning investigator “to a geographic subset of the very region from which he formerly had derived his zoning assignments” “likely would not be sufficiently adverse to implicate the First Amendment”

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Judges: Luttig, Widener, Williams

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