Action Alleging Termination of Government Employee Based on Speech
In Anemone v. Metro. Trans. Auth., No. 08-2646, action alleging that defendants took a series of adverse employment actions against plaintiff in response to plaintiff’s protected speech concerning corruption at the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the court affirmed summary judgment for defendants where 1) any reasonable jury would have to find that plaintiff would have been suspended and then terminated even absent any retaliatory intent on defendants’ part engendered by his allegedly protected speech, such that defendants were entitled, under Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274 (1977), to a defense to all plaintiff’s First Amendment claims; and 2) the district court correctly rejected the procedural due process claims.
Related Resources
- Read the Second Circuit’s Decision in Anemone v. Metro. Trans. Auth., No. 08-2646
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