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Whistler Blowers Beware
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 09:41:51 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: malin () cs cmu edu Date: May 31, 2006 9:13:38 AM EDT To: dave () farber net 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. -bradhttp://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 bytheir 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 counterintuitiveimplication that employees might fare better by speaking out as "citizens" and taking their complaints to the public rather than keeping them within
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