Hong Liu Yang v. Lynch

How courts have described this case

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• holding that officer's speech concerning police department supervisors' schedules and costs incurred by town as a result of avoidable inefficiencies involved a matter of public concern
• discussing the factors to consider in determining whether speech was made pursuant to a public employee’s official duties
• denying qualified immunity to a public employer because “the law was sufficiently clear in 2009 that a government employer should have known that it could not fire an employee because she spoke out as a citizen about a matter of public concern”
• “[Plaintiffs] speech cannot be categorized as personal simply because it was connected to, arose from, or even was motivated by [plaintiffs] many grievances with conditions at [work].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).