Robinson v. York

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that speech concerning the misconduct of police officers and an alleged cover-up were matters of public concern
• holding that the “scope of [the plaintiff’s] 2 job duties is a question of fact”
• holding that a police sergeant’s testimony in a class action discrimination lawsuit addressed a matter of public concern, regardless of the specific content of the testimony or its impact on the outcome of the suit
• holding that “it is proper to deny a motion for summary judgment” on a qualified immunity defense when there are underlying factual disputes that impact the First Amendment retaliation test
• holding that factual disputes about the extent of the workplace disruption and about whether the justifications asserted by the defendant were pretextual precluded a finding of disturbance sufficient to outweigh a public employee’s right to engage in protected speech
• recognizing plaintiff’s strong First Amendment interest in speaking out about illegal conduct by public officials

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).