Laura Kubiak v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employee’s internal speech about inappropriate treatment at work “was intimately connected with her professional duties” and thus made as a public employee
• holding that a police officer’s internal complaints alleging that a co-worker inappropriately yelled at her about a work-related report were “made as a public employee and not as a private citizen”
• explaining that plaintiff spoke as an employee because her “speech was intimately connected with her professional du- ties”
• explaining that plaintiff spoke as an employee because her “speech was intimately connected with her professional duties”
• holding speech \intimately connected\ with an employee's job only serves to bolster the conclusion that an individual was speaking as an employee
• remanding a claim for further evaluation of whether a statement involved a matter of public concern where the district court only considered the speaker’s motive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).