Lieutenant Jeffrey McEvoy v. Harold J. Shoemaker and Ben K. Blake, and City of Aurora, Colorado

How courts have described this case

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• holding that police officer’s speech regarding the department’s failure to promote him addresses a matter of private, not public, concern
• finding police officer's letter to city council complained of internal problems and mismanagement in police department, not misconduct by officials
• “[S]peech which may be of general interest to the public is not automatically afforded [F]irst [A]mendment protection.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).