Richard Moss v. City of Pembroke Pines

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Moss's speech was insulated from First Amendment protection because it fell within his official duty to \ensure that the fire department provided the best service possible\
• holding that proof of a rea- sonable possibility of adverse harm is sufficient
• stating that if a plaintiff cannot survive the first two Pickering factors, the speech does not warrant First Amendment protection
• explaining that public concern and competing interests prongs are legal matters to be decided by a court
• stating that both prongs of Garcetti are questions of law
• noting a court can resolve the issue of whether speech was a sub- stantial motivating factor in a plaintiff’s termination where “the ev- idence is undisputed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).