Larry Williams v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, Edward T. Kassinger, Etc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the “ultimate balancing of interests of citizen and state with regard to first amendment protection . . . remains in the sphere of the court.”
• analyzing the leaking of an altered police report and the original unaltered report as speech in a wrongful discharge action
• “As a matter of law, appellant had no valid defenses to the firing if it was because of the [protected] communication.”
• exhaustion not considered because of nature of the grievance and initial cold reception of the grievance
• when matters vital to the public interest at issue employee’s right to speak must be protected “vigorously”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).