Sydney O. Hall v. Claude A. Ford

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that whether a public university’s “administration [wa]s mismanaging the athletic program” and the “structure of academic and athletic programs” generally were matters of public concern
• upholding dismissal of athletic director after he repeatedly and publicly disagreed with superiors regarding proper 26 response to violations of university rules
• finding plaintiff’s work communications that “accused the Chief Judge of having a ‘low level of ethics” and of being “incompetent and ethically challenged” were inappropriate
• dismissing the plaintiff’s due process claim arising out of the termination of his employment contract on the grounds that “[t]hose who are terminable at will have no property 8 Lockheed Martin Corp. v. United States, 50 Fed. Cl. 550 (2001
• an employee who agrees to serve “at the pleasure of’ his employer is an “at will employee with no legitimate expectation of continued employment”
• a matter of public concern does not \lose its importance merely because it arises in an employee dispute\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).