internal-investigation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-1007 Robert A. Hawkland v. Burke Hall, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response Waived first-amendment free-speech governmental-agency internal-investigation official-duties public-employee retaliation speech-protection Whether statements made by a public employee during an internal investigation by a governmental agency regarding matters of public concern are within …
21-6819 Christopher Varner v. Stan Shepard, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedy booth-v-churner civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-requirement internal-investigation prison-conditions prison-grievance ross-v-blake section-1997e Whether a prison grievance procedure is an available administrative remedy when it automatically refers a grievance for an internal investigation and …
21-792 Michael Billioni v. Bruce Bryant, Sheriff, York County, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied chain-of-command civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech internal-investigation law-enforcement-misconduct pickering-balancing-test public-employee-speech whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether a public employee's speech about serious law enforcement misconduct has limited weight in the Pickering First Amendment balancing analysis