United States Third Circuit

Internal investigation into police misconduct is a matter of public concern implicating free speech rights, even though the investigation itself is not public and the investigator was performing his duties as a public servant.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/13/2000
• Decided 05/02/2001
• Published 05/02/2001

Judges

• Before SCIRICA and AMBRO, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Linda B. Kenney, (Argued), Nancy S. Martin, Kenney, Schaer & Martin, Red Bank, NJ, Attorneys for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Barbara H. Parker, Office of County Counsel, Hackensack, NJ, Attorney for Appellee, County of Bergen., J. Sheldon Cohen, (Argued), Peter A. Tucci, Jr., DeCotiis, Fitzpatrick, Gluck, Hayden & Cole, Teaneck, NJ, Attorneys for Appellees, Office of the Prosecutor and Charles R. Buckley, Acting Prosecutor for Bergen County., Dennis G. Harraka, Greenberg, Ferrara, Covitz, Turitz, Harraka & Goldberg, Hackensack, NJ, Attorney for Appellee, Board of Chosen Freeholders of Bergen County.