Kennedy v. Tangipahoa Parish Library Board of Control

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• stating that speech is not on a matter of public concern if it is made in “furtherance of a personal employer-employee dispute.”
• stating that the requirement to balance an employee’s interest in his First-Amendment speech against the employer’s interest in promoting workplace efficiency “implicates only the summary judgment [analysis], not [a Rule 12(b)(6)] analysis”
• applying the aforementioned three principles of The Fifth Circuit mixed speech jurisprudence during analysis under the content prong of the content, form, and context test
• noting cases in which personally aggrieved employees criti- cized their superiors
• “[S]peech made against the backdrop of ongoing commentary and debate in the press involves the public concern.”
• “[S]peech made against the backdrop of ongoing commentary and debate in the press involves the public concern.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).