Urashka v. Griffin Hospital

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• agreeing that Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-51q “protects only speech on issues of ‘public concern’ and does not extend to wholly private or internal speech relating to a declarant’s own terms and conditions of employment”
• “Section 31-51q, therefore, will afford protection to a plaintiff only if the speech for which she was allegedly terminated involved a ‘matter of public concern.’” (citation omitted)
• “Absent state action, the plaintiff simply cannot pursue a claim under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.” (citing Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U.S. 551 (1972
• “Section 31–51q, by its own terms, protects only those rights guaranteed by the first amendment to the United States Constitution or section 3, 4 or 14 of article first of the [Connecticut] constitution . . . .” (quotation marks and internal citation omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).