Vose v. Kliment

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a police officer’s report about misconduct in a different unit, while “above and beyond his routine duties,” was still within his official duties
• holding that police officer’s report of misconduct in a separate unit of the police department was employee speech
• holding that police officer’s report of misconduct in a separate unit of the police department was employee speech
• finding that while sergeant went “above and beyond” in reporting misconduct of detectives not under his supervision, it was not beyond his official duty to ensure security and property of his unit’s operations
• “Determining the official duties of a public employee requires a practical inquiry into what duties the employee is expected to perform ....”
• police officer “was merely doing his job” when he reported suspected police misconduct to his superiors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).