Karl v. City of Mountlake Terrace

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• “The scope and content of a plaintiff's 10 job responsibilities is a question of fact over which we lack jurisdiction, while ‘the ultimate 11 constitutional significance of the [undisputed] facts’ is a question of law.” (quoting Posey, 546 12 F.3d at 1129)
• A public employee’s speech on a matter of public concern is protected “if the speaker ‘had no official duty’ to make the questioned statements, . . . or if the speech was not the product of ‘perform[ing] the tasks [the employee] was paid to perform.’”

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