HIGGINS v. KELLEY

No. 77-1314.

574 F.2d 789 (1978)

William F. HIGGINS, Jr., Appellant, v. Clarence M. KELLEY, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Federal Bureau of Investigation, an Agency of the United States.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided April 3, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Uscher, Kenneth L. Abrams, Friedman, Kates, Uscher & Pearlman, Rutherford, N. J., for appellant.

Jonathan L. Goldstein, U. S. Atty., Elizabeth T. Barlow, Asst. U. S. Atty., Newark, N. J., for appellee.

Before ROSENN and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges, and VAN ARTSDALEN, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

ROSENN, Circuit Judge.

Generally, no one would question the right of any employer, particularly a public agency supported by taxpayer funds, to discharge an incompetent or inefficient employee. From time to time, however, employees of governmental agencies have elevated their voices in expressions of disapproval of inefficiencies, inadequacies and wastefulness in their employer's operations. In today's journalistic parlance, such employees...

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