Jerry M. Stanley v. City of Dalton, Georgia

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a police officer's speech about chief of police's alleged theft of money from an evidence room was a matter of public concern
• holding that a plaintiff’s burden in showing the defendants were motivated by protected conduct is not a “heavy one”
• holding that a police officer’s speech about chief of police’s alleged theft of money from an evidence room was a matter of public concern
• holding that a defendant is entitled to qualified immunity where the record shows that defendant was “motivated, at least in part, by lawful considerations.”
• finding that courts may exercise pendent jurisdiction over evidence sufficiency claims when raised along with arguments properly before the court
• refusing to grant judgment as a matter of law where issue remained as to whether employer would have made the same decision

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