Watkins v. Bowden

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting claim of retaliatory termination based on employee’s complaints of harassment, explaining that “if Watkins’s complaints did not affect a matter of public concern, her First Amendment claims must fail”
• distinguishing a “pure or generic retaliation claim” from a situation like that in Beardsley
• “A pure or generic retaliation claim . . . simply does not implicate the Equal Protection Clause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).