Keith A. Hill v. Borough of Kutztown and Gennaro Marino, Mayor of Kutztown, in His Individual and Official Capacity

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• holding that the First Amendment did not protect a former borough manager’s complaint to the city council about the mayor
• holding that borough manager’s relaying workers’ harassment complaints concerning mayor to borough council was not protected speech because manager was “appointed enforcer” of relevant borough policies
• concluding that borough manager did not speak as citizen when relaying complaints about mayor’s harassment and intimidation to borough council president pursuant to official duties as borough manager
• concluding that public employee’s speech was not protected where plaintiffs complaint alleged that he received complaints about co-worker and reported those complaints “as part of his duties as Manager and otherwise”
• holding that a § 1983 “claim must fail” if the plaintiff does not allege the “existence of similarly situated individuals . . . who [were] treated differently . . .”
• holding that qualified immunity is not a defense to claims for prospective injunctive relief

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