Laverne Belk v. City of Eldon, Scott Harrison, Steve Wood, Brad Veach, Ron Bly

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the presence of “unsavory personal motives” does not “eviscerate” constitutional protection, “so long as the speech itself addresses matters of public concern”
• noting that statements of “academic interest” to the speaker are given more protection
• stating that matters of political, social, and other concern to the community, as well as speech criticizing a public employee in their capacity as a public official address matters of public concern
• finding front pay award of ten years would allow plaintiff adequate time to find commensurate employment or taken her to \normal retirement age\
• noting “post-verdict judgment as a matter of law is appropriate only where the evidence is entirely insufficient to support the verdict”
• upholding denial of front pay reduction for farming income that employee would have had in any case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).