Lori Cygan v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections, Jon E. Litscher, Daniel Bertrand

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• noting that employee must rely on more than post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning where employer has offered a well-supported, innocent explanation for action
• prison guard’s “loud and profane complaints” in presence of other officers and inmates undermined authority of supervising guard and therefore were not entitled to protection
• the Court “must decide whether the speech is most accurately characterized as an employee grievance, or as a matter of political, social or other concern to the community.”
• although disgruntled prison guard’s speech may have been motivated by dissatisfaction and concerns for personal safety, speech touched on issues of internal prison security and was “undoubtedly a matter of public concern”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).