O'Connell v. Marrero Recio

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• stating that the First Amendment does not protect speech “solely focused” on events in the workplace and reported internally to fulfill job responsibilities
• stating that public employee’s statements to supervisors that she did not want to perform certain tasks she found to be unethical were employment-related speech and not protected
• stating that public employee’s statements to supervisors that she did not want to perform certain tasks she found to be unethical were employment-related speech and not protected
• noting that speech solely focused on workplace events and made to fulfill work responsibilities is \the quintessential example of speech that owes its existence to a public employee's professional responsibilities and thus is not protected under the First Amendment\
• finding the plaintiff was unable to state a plausible claim for relief because the at-issue speech “solely focused on events at her workplace and was made exclusively to fulfill her responsibilities”
• human resource director who complained about unethical and illegal activities in workplace was not speaking as private citizen for First Amendment purposes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).