Legal Opinion
Ross v. Lichtenfeld
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 10, 2012No. Docket 10-5275-cvPublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to determine whether plaintiff-appellee Risa A. Ross (“Ross”) was speaking pursuant to her official duties as a payroll clerk typist for the Katonah-Lewisboro Union Free School District (“the District”) when she reported financial malfeasance to defendant-appellant Robert Lichtenfeld (“Lichtenfeld”), the District’s Superintendent, and to the Katonah-Lewisboro Board of Education (“the Board”). The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (William G. Young, Judge) held that Ross was speaking as a private…
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