Dora Elizabeth Cook v. Gwinnett Co. School Dist.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a bus driver’s concerns about “the safety of children due to bus overcrowding and the lack of time allotted for pre-trip bus inspections” were not merely “internal bus driver employment issues”
• observing that “even in a non-public forum,” the law is “clearly established that the state cannot engage in viewpoint discrimination”
• finding that bus driver who recruited coworkers to join a union-like organization did not impair efficiency because there was no evidence that she did so while performing her job duties
• holding that a union president’s recruiting of fellow bus drivers to join the union touched on a matter of public concern because she did so “to improve a variety of conditions, not only for herself individually, but rather for the collective welfare of her fellow drivers”
• deeming \los[s] [of] additional prestige and office responsibilities that came with being a team leader\ sufficient to constitute adverse action
• considering, as a preliminary matter, whether plaintiff was subjected to an adverse employment action before determining whether a public official was entitled to qualified immunity from First Amendment retaliation claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).