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BLACKMAN v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY

Docket No. 06-4714-cv.

491 F.3d 95 (2007)

Carlos BLACKMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, Mark Winslow, Robert Davenport, Joseph Semien, Luis Santana and Roger Toussaint, as President of Transport Workers Union, Local 100, Plaintiffs, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 21, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart Lichten, Schwartz, Lichten & Bright, P.C., New York, N.Y., for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Richard Schoolman, Office of the General Counsel, New York City Transit Authority, Brooklyn, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: McLAUGHLIN, CALABRESI, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

We have long recognized that "the First Amendment protects the eloquent and insolent alike." Sheppard v. Beerman (Sheppard I), 94 F.3d 823, 829 (2d Cir.1996). This is no less true for a government employee, because "[o]ne does, of course, have a First Amendment right not to be terminated from public employment in retaliation for engaging in protected speech." Locurto v. Giuliani, 447...

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