Heil v. Santoro

How courts have described this case

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• holding “government can prevail if it can show that it reasonably believed that the speech would potentially interfere with or disrupt the government’s activities” in a manner outweighing employee’s interests
• affirming summary judgment for defendants where plaintiff would have been disciplined even in the absence of his protected speech
• “government can prevail if it can show that it reasonably believed that the speech would potentially interfere with or disrupt the government’s activities”
• “[A] party opposing summary judgment does not create a triable issue by denying his previously sworn statements.”
• Michael Cooper, More Tolerance Needed By Mayor Pataki Suggests, N.Y. Times, March 22, 1999, at A1 (“There is a legitimate fear among, particularly, minority groups, that the police can from time to time be too quick to take violent action.”
• affirming summary judgment for defendants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).