Pucci v. Nineteenth District Court

OPINION

JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

This case involves the termination of plaintiff Julie Pucci from her administrative position in the Nineteenth District Court, a court within Michigan’s state judicial system. Pucci has brought suit against both the court and Mark Somers, the court’s chief judge at the time of Pucci’s termination. Pucci claims that she was terminated in retaliation for her complaints to state court officials about Somers’s use of religious language from the bench, in violation of her right to free speech. She also alleges her termination violated her right to due…