Sharon L. Gragg v. Somerset Technical College

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a government employee has no constitutionally protected interest in continued employment when the employee is laid off because his position is eliminated
• holding that a government employee has no constitutional right to continued employment when the government eliminates her position and that termination is not based on cause
• noting that the “evidence must be sufficiently probative to allow a factfinder to believe that the employer intentionally discriminated against the plaintiff” (punctuation modified)
• noting that the “evidence must be sufficiently probative to allow a factfinder to believe that the employer intentionally discriminated against the plaintiff” (punctuation modified)
• finding that an employee’s request for overtime pay was not a matter of public concern but was a grievance of a personal nature where her purpose was to ensure that she received compensation for additional work
• finding that an employee’s request for overtime pay was not a matter of public concern, but was a grievance of a personal nature where her purpose was to ensure that she received compensation for the additional work

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).