Legal Opinion
United States v. Ortiz
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 26, 2015No. 13-2915-cvPublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:
Officer Craig Matthews brought suit alleging that the City of New York retaliated against him for speaking to his commanding officers about an arrest quota policy at his precinct of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”). The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Paul A. Engelmayer, Judge) granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, holding that Matthews spoke as a public employee, not as a citizen, and that his speech was thus not protected by the First Amendment. We conclude that because Matthews’s comments on…
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