Standard Oil Co. v. Eckart

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• recognizing that speech by a public employee outside the workplace was made in the employee's official capacity
• holding a municipal government employee's remarks may not be protected under Connick if he was speaking as an employee, rather than as a citizen
• holding a municipal govern- ment employee’s remarks may not be protected under Connick if he was speaking as an employee, rather than as a citizen
• noting that a court may dispose of a case on the ground that no constitutional violation occurred without addressing qualified immunity
• stating that claim of retaliatory reassignment of zoning investigator \to a geographic subset of the very region from which he formerly had derived his zoning assignments\ \likely would not be sufficiently adverse to implicate the First Amendment\
• stating that claim of retaliatory reassignment of zoning investigator “to a geographic subset of the very region from which he formerly had derived his zoning assignments” “likely would not be sufficiently adverse to implicate the First Amendment”

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