Kevin Robertson v. Albert Fiore Hudson County Improvement Authority

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• legitimate reason to discharge when employee threatened lives of co-workers by smoking in highly flammable work-place
• plaintiff must prove \that the employee maintained an affiliation with a party\ and \that the employee's political affiliation was a substantial or motivating factor in the adverse employment decision\
• cited by Plaintiff, setting forth the elements that a public employee must prove to make out a claim of discrimination based on political association
• “Robertson fails to identify the similarly situated employees who he alleges also [broke the employer’s] rules and does not identify their political affiliation to permit a relevant comparison.”
• plaintiff must prove \that the employee maintained an affiliation with a party\ and \that the employee's political affiliation was a substantial or motivating factor in the adverse employment decision\

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