United States Eleventh Circuit

Denial of qualified immunity to supervisors in a county Department of Family and Children Services is reversed as the First Amendment does not protect the internal complaints about caseloads by case managers since it does not protect government employees when they speak as employees as opposed to citizens.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/21/2007
• Published 12/21/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before BIRCH and PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and NANGLE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce M. Edenfield, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellants., Clifford Harold Hardwick, Hardwick & Associates, Roswell, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.