Echtenkamp v. Loudon County Public Schools

How courts have described this case

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• finding the plaintiff had sufficiently pled causation, in part, because “under the facts as alleged, [the defendant], who appears to have borne the brunt of plaintiffs [protected] criticism, [was] the driving force behind the retaliatory actions”
• “[C]riticism of plaintiff’s job performance or manner, even if clearly damaging to the plaintiff’s interests, does not necessarily constitute actionable defamation.”
• describing plaintiff as “abrasive, unprofessional, and rude” as actionable
• internal critiques and charges did not satisfy publication element

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).