Legal Opinion
Nolan v. CN8
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 29, 2011No. 10-2239PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Barry Nolan, a regional television personality, was discharged from his employment with The Comcast Network, LLC (“Comcast”) after he publicly protested the selection of political commentator Bill O’Reilly for a prestigious broadcasting award. In response to this discharge, Nolan filed in the Massachusetts Superior Court a claim of speech-motivated retaliation under the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act (“MCRA”), Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 12, §§ 11H, 111. After Comcast’s removal of the case to federal court, the district court entered summary judgment in favor *72of Comcast on…
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