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Federal court reinstates suit against police department for free speech violation

donal brown July 25, 2011

A federal appeals court said a former Middletown, New York  police officer could sue his police department over his firing after  the department allegedly asked him to lie about an excessive force claim against a fellow officer. A lower court had ruled that the officer had no standing to sue since his speech was part of his job performance rather than the expression of a private citizen. -db From Your News Now , July 22,

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College publications director wins first round in case over speech criticizing employer

donal brown May 23, 2011

Operating under the umbrella of the Supreme Court decision limiting employee speech, a college publications director won the first round in a lawsuit against her college for firing her for saying that the college forced employees to do political work. A federal district  judge reinstated he woman’s suit saying that as a statement on corruption, the speech was a matter of public interest and protected under the First Amendment. -db From a commentary for the

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Federal appeals court rules employees reporting fraud can be punished for talking to media

donal brown May 5, 2011

A law on whistle-blowers does not protect them from retaliation if they take their case to the media, ruled a federal appeals court in San Francisco. The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act only protects whistle-blowers if they report suspected fraud to federal regulators, Congress or a workplace supervisor. In so ruling the court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit by Boeing auditors fired in 2007 for telling a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter that they were being pressured to

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New Jersey transit worker gets job back after fired for buring pages of Quran at ground zero protest

donal brown April 25, 2011

A veteran New Jersey transit employee was reinstated in his job after he was fired for burning pages of the Quran while off duty in a protest over the Islamic community center near ground zero in New York City. Under the settlement, the man also got $25,000 for pain and suffering, back pay and legal fees. A Muslim advocate group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the man should not have been fired for exercising

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Legal action over employee use of social media mounts

donal brown January 24, 2011

The Wall Street Journal Analysis January 21, 2011 By Jeanette Borzo When companies dismiss employees for what they consider harmful use of social media, the dismissals can backfire on the companies involving them in expensive lawsuits and damaging their reputations. -db

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