Grievance of Morrissey

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding just cause for termination where employee undermined established policy and superior’s authority
• undermining employer’s established policy and superior’s authority detrimental to employer’s interests
• dismissal letter in combination with oral notification extended notice of adequate specificity to grievant
• similar retaliation claim in employment context adjudicated by Vermont Labor Relations Board
• First Amendment analysis must ‘“arrive at a balance between the interests of the [employee], as a citizen, in commenting upon matters of public concern and the interest of the State, as an employer, in promoting the efficiency of the public services it performs through its employees’”
• grievant discharged due to exercise of free speech

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).