Michael M. Gorman v. Renault Robinson, George C. Cramer, and William T. Salem

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• holding that the court lacked jurisdiction to determine whether the defendants were discharged because of poor performance or because of their cooperation with the FBI
• holding that government officials were .not entitled to qualified immunity on claim that employee was fired in retaliation for contacting FBI about crimes by other public employees
• stating that in interlocutory qualified immunity appeals this court has no jurisdiction over highly factual “we didn’t do it” arguments
• holding that communications with the FBI were protected under the First Amendment because prior to 1986 the law was clear that an employer may not retaliate against an employee for expressing his views about matters of public concern.
• \The just cause provision accompanying the procedures contained in [the manual] was an assurance of continued employment.\
• Chicago Housing Authority pamphlet regarding just cause employment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).