Kachina Pipeline Company, Inc. v. Michael D. Lillis

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Pickering balancing did not clearly favor the plaintiff-officers in part because they “did not voice their concerns to Department leadership”
• plaintiffs, former public-safety officers, sued the Town of Bald Head Island, its town manager, and the director of emergency services
• “[T]he availability upon request of those same letters from the Officers’ personnel file may give rise to a constitutionally cognizable public disclosure.”
• “[A] governmental disclosure places a stigma on a former employee sufficient to give rise to a liberty interest claim if it implies the existence of serious character defects such as dishonesty or immorality.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).