Stephen L. Bartlett v. Colonel C.E. Fisher Captain S.T. Davis

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• finding that state’s efficiency interest outweighed state trooper’s First Amendment interest because evidence demonstrated that trooper’s speech caused damage to Highway Patrol’s reputation and hostility on the part of the public
• finding that state's efficiency interest outweighed state trooper's First Amendment interest because evidence demonstrated that trooper's speech caused damage to Highway Patrol's reputation and hostility on the part of the public
• noting that qualified immunity should “rarely” be denied under Pickering, which requires a balancing to resolve a public employee’s First Amendment claim
• noting paramilitary government employer “should be accorded much wider latitude than the normal government employer in dealing with dissension within its ranks”
• reversing the district court's denial of summary judgment for the defendants on the basis of qualified immunity

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