[IP] Whistler Blowers Beware
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From: malin@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: May 31, 2006 9:13:38 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Whistler Blowers Beware
Dave - it's official. Supreme Court decided that public employees tha
become whistleblowers are not protected. However, there were some
interesting comments made by the majority.
-brad
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/31/washington/31scotus.html?
_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=login
A Supreme Court Setback for Whistle-Blowers
by LINDA GREENHOUSE
Published: May 31, 2006
WASHINGTON, May 30 — The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the
Constitution does not protect public employees against retaliation by
their supervisors for anything they say in the course of performing
their
assigned duties.
While the court's focus in the 5-to-4 decision was on disputes that
remain
within the workplace, the decision raised questions about the extent to
which whistle-blowers who make their complaints public might now face a
greater danger of retaliation.
Although several employee groups raised immediate alarms, Justice
Anthony
M. Kennedy's majority opinion in fact contained the counterintuitive
implication that employees might fare better by speaking out as
"citizens"
and taking their complaints to the public rather than keeping them
within
the official chain of command.
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