CAREY v. THROWE

No. 19-1194.

957 F.3d 468 (2020)

Norris Paul CAREY, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Deputy Secretary Joanne THROWE; Captain Edward Johnson; Captain Charles Vernon; Robert K. Ziegler, Superintendent, Defendants-Appellees, and Maryland Natural Resources Police, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: April 30, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robin R. Cockey , Ashley A. Bosché , COCKEY, BRENNAN & MALONEY, P.C., Salisbury, Maryland, for Appellant. Andrew M. Winick , HOFMEISTER & BREZA, Hunt Valley, Maryland, for Appellee Captain Edward Johnson. Brian E. Frosh , Attorney General, Roger L. Wolfe, Jr. , Assistant Attorney General, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MARYLAND, Annapolis, Maryland, for Appellees.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Wilkinson wrote the opinion, in which Judge Keenan and Judge Alston joined.


In December 2016 and January 2017, Norris Paul Carey, Jr., then an employee of Maryland's Department of Natural Resources ("DNR"), submitted to a local website two anonymous blog posts about Edward Johnson, then Captain of the Internal Affairs Unit of the Maryland Natural Resources...

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