affording qualified immunity to official who reasonably believed that value of terminated employee’s speech was outweighed by harm to employer
How later courts described this case
- affording qualified immunity to official who reasonably believed that value of terminated employee’s speech was outweighed by harm to employer
- “the question confronting this court ... is not whether Judge Feikens actually violated Guercio’s first amendment right of free speech ... but, rather, is whether plaintiffs rights were so clearly established when she was terminated that Judge Feikens should have understood that his conduct ... violated her first amendment right to free speech[.]”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Denied.