HARVEY

v.

PINCUS ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (14 total)

• Beard v. Whitley Cnty. Remc, 840 F.2d 405 (7th Cir. 1988)
  …isodes as “outcome determinative under the governing law.” Lauritzen, at 1534 [*411] (quoting Hossman v. Spradlin, 812 F. 2d 1019, 1020-21 (7th Cir.1987) (per curiam) (quoting Egger v. Phillips, 710 F. 2d 292, 296 (7th Cir.) (en banc), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 918, 104 S.Ct. 284, 78 L.Ed.2d 262 (1983))). “One of the principal purposes of the summary judgment rule is to isolate and dispose of factually unsupported claims or defenses, and ... it should be interpreted in a way that allows it to accomplish this p…
• Benson v. Allphin, 786 F.2d 268 (7th Cir. 1986)
  …s termination, and (3) his disclosures to the press and others after his termination.20 (1) As for Benson’s in-house expressions prior to his termination, this court’s decision in Egger v. Phillips, 710 F. 2d 292 (7th Cir.) (en banc), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 918, 104 S.Ct. 284, 78 L.Ed.2d 262 (1983), is controlling. In Egger, we stated that, until -th% Supreme Court’s 1979 decision in Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District, 439 U.S. 410, 99 S.Ct. 693, 58 L.Ed.2d 619 (1979), it was an open quest…
• Raymon J. Melton v. City OF Okla. City, 879 F.2d 706 (10th Cir. 1989)
  …s in the law enforcement context, where ‘[mutual] trust and respect among [employees] ... are particularly important’ and ‘[t]he need for confidentiality cannot be gainsaid.’ ” (quoting Egger v. Phillips, 710 F. 2d 292, 319 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 918, 104 S.Ct. 284, 78 L.Ed.2d 262 (1983)). Accord Conaway, 853 F. 2d at 798. Despite the court's contrary implication in this case, Connick binds us: The extent of the government’s burden depends on the nature of the employee’s speech. Connick, 461 U…