Pierce v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

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• holding that threatening employee to mind her own business, investigating her, videotaping her without her permission, and forcing her to take polygraph could not be considered adverse employment actions because they had no effect on conditions of employment
• finding that videotaping the plaintiff in a public place as part of an investigation insufficient where it did not lead to an adverse employment action
• finding that the employee presented no evidence that the employer acted with retaliatory intent where the disciplinary action was within the department’s guidelines
• stating that an investigation, by itself, was not an adverse employment action
• A prima facie case must include a showing that “(1) Defendants were acting under color of state law; (2) [Plaintiff’s] speech activities were protected under the First Amendment; and (3
• no vicarious liability under § 1983

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