Legal Opinion
Curran v. Cousins
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 5, 2007No. 07-1686PublishedCited by 306 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Joseph V. Curran sued the Essex County Sheriffs Department, the Sheriff, and others, asserting they terminated his employment as a correctional officer in retaliation for his speech, in violation of the First Amendment and the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. The district court found that the public interest in the employee’s speech was outweighed by the danger the speech would cause to the effective functioning of the Department and entered judgment for the defendants. Curran v. Cousins, 482 F.Supp.2d 36 (D.Mass.2007). We affirm, in our first case on the subject…
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