United States Tenth Circuit

Hospital safety employee's comments on how to dispose of medical waste are comments of a professional, rather than public, concern, and therefore not entitled to First Amendment protection for purposes of plaintiff's retaliatory discharge claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/13/2001
• Published 08/13/2001

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, KELLY, Circuit Judges, and LUNGSTRUM , District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barry Douglas Roseman,Roseman & Kazmierski, L.L.C., Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sonja S. McKenzie (Thomas S. Rice, with her on the brief), Senter, Goldfarb & Rice, L.L.C., Denver, CO, for Defendant-Appellee.