Phillips v. Elkhart City of

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA SOUTH BEND DIVISION JOY PHILLIPS, Plaintiff, v. CAUSE NO. 3:24cv566 DRL-AZ CITY OF ELKHART et al., Defendants. OPINION AND ORDER Joy Phillips was fired as a detective with the Elkhart Police Department. She alleges that her termination was in retaliation for exercising her First Amendment rights and reporting what she viewed as police misconduct. She says she told supervisors and the Elkhart Board of Public Safety that oversees the department. Accepting this all as true (as the court procedurally must today), when she spoke, she acted…