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PRICE v. BRITTAIN

No. 88-3342.

874 F.2d 252 (1989)

James Patrick PRICE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas H. BRITTAIN, Jr., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 31, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Ferguson, Brooks E. Hester, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Fernin F. Eaton, Baton Rouge, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before GEE, SMITH, and DUHE, Circuit Judges.

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

We consider here the thin line between disruptive rumor-spreading and protected "whistle-blowing" in a civil service employee discharge case. Plaintiff, James Patrick Price, was a social worker employed at the Feliciana Forensic Facility, a Louisiana state mental health hospital, until his termination on September 15, 1982. Defendant Thomas Brittain, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the State Department of Health and Human Resources ("DHHR...

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