HUTH v. HASLUN

Docket No. 08-2203-cv.

598 F.3d 70 (2010)

Florence E. HUTH, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Deborah HASLUN, Carlos Millan, Joseph Bloomer, Ramesh Mehta, and Jonathan Barr, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 11, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Lovett (Drita Nicaj, on the brief), Lovett & Gould, LLP, White Plains, NY, for plaintiff-appellee.

Monica Wagner, Assistant Solicitor General (Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General of the State of New York, on the brief, Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General, and Richard Dearing, Assistant Solicitor General, of counsel), Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, NY, for defendants-appellants.

Before: CABRANES and HALL, Circuit Judges, STEIN, District Judge.


JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

The principal questions presented in this appeal are: (1) whether a public employee engages in speech protected from retaliation by the First Amendment by relaying a subordinate's concerns to her supervisor and by filing a lawsuit; and (2) whether a plaintiff can have third-party standing to assert claims on behalf of an individual who has suffered no injury.

Defendants-appellants Deborah Haslun, Carlos Millan, Joseph...

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