John A. Gazarkiewicz v. Town Of Kingsford Heights

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “speech of public importance only loses its First Amendment protection if the public employee knew it was false or made it in reckless disregard of the truth”
• explaining speech “loses its First Amendment protection if the [plaintiff] knew it was false or made it in reckless disregard of the truth.”
• finding contemporaneous records “more reliable than post hoc justifications given [by defendants’ witnesses] in deposition testimony once they are aware they are being sued”
• \[S]peech of public importance is only transformed into a matter of private concern when it is motivated solely by the speaker's personal interests.\
• “[S]peech of public importance is only transformed into a matter of private concern when it is motivated solely by the speaker’s personal interests.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).