Paul C. Murray v. Theodore M. Gardner, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that an FBI practice of furloughing agents by lottery merely amounted to “the quintessential employee beef: 10 management has acted incompetently,” and was therefore not protected speech
• employee’s criticism of furlough plan not matter of public concern when motivated by self-interest in outcome
• where the court stated: “the role of the whistle blower merits protection; the expressions of personal dissatisfaction by a discontented employee do not”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).