Keller v. City of Tallahassee

ORDER ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR, SUMMARY JUDGMENT

Mark E. Walker, United States District Judge

If you resign from public employment in order to avoid the stigma of being fired but your government employer subsequently reports you as having been fired anyway, do you have any recourse under federal law? Under the circumstances of this case—really, under the circumstances of this case as presented in admissible form in the record—the answer is “no.”

Frank Keller was hired by the Tallahassee Police Department (“TPD”) in October of 2013. Keller had rocky relationships with two of his training…