Elizabeth Marshall v. Porter County Plan Commission

How courts have described this case

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• holding that employee’s complaints about failure to perform required building inspections were constitutionally protected, since the employee’s charges “were cofnmunicated as office concerns, not as concerns that affected only [plaintiff]”
• observing that “[i]t is often the case that those who speak out are also involved in personal disputes with employ ers and other employees”
• noting that coworker’s partisan activities at work, excessive mileage reimbursement requests and failures to perform building inspections “were the type that result in the misuse of public funds and trust”
• “If the speech concerns a subject of public interest but the expression addresses only the personal effect upon the employee, then as a matter of law the speech is not of public concern.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).