MURRAY v. VERIZON WIRELESS, LLC

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA DEVON MURRAY : : CIVIL ACTION : : v. : : NO. 24-273 VERIZON WIRELESS, LLC : OPINION I. Introduction As framed by Plaintiff Devon Murray (“Plaintiff”), this case presents the Court with a difficult societal question about who should be allowed to say which words in a workplace. But to answer that question would require this Court to appoint itself as a “super-personnel department” with de novo review of individual hiring and firing decisions, which the Third Circuit has expressly forbidden. See Brewer v. Quaker State…