James Martsolf v. John Brown

OPINION

SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.

James Martsolf, a Pennsylvania State Police (“PSP”) officer, brought this suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit alleging, inter alia, that various employees of the PSP retaliated against him by removing him from the Special Emergency Response Team (“SERT”) in violation of his rights under the Petition Clause of the First Amendment. 1 Specifically, Martsolf claims that he was retaliated against for filing or supporting three petitions: (1) an EEOC/PHRC complaint filed by his then-wife in May 2005; (2) an internal PSP complaint Martsolf filed after the EEOC/ PHRC…