BOYCE v. ANDREW

No. 06-11967.

510 F.3d 1333 (2007)

Clarinda BOYCE, Katina Robinson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Gwendolyn ANDREW, Katherine Herren, Glenda McMillan, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 21, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce M. Edenfield, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Clifford Harold Hardwick, Hardwick & Associates, Roswell, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before BIRCH and PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and NANGLE, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

This interlocutory appeal from the denial of qualified immunity to supervisors in a county Department of Family and Children Services ("DFCS") requires us to determine if internal complaints about caseloads are constitutionally protected public speech that shield employees from termination or transfer. The district judge determined that case managers who complained regarding their caseloads had raised a public concern encompassed by the First Amendment...

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