Summary Judgment For Employer In Bus Driver’s Protected Speech Suit Vacated

Mealey's (June 8, 2022, 8:00 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — A bus driver who alleges that he was wrongly fired after giving an interview while working to a television station regarding proposed budget cuts sufficiently showed that a reasonable jury could find that his speech was protected, a First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled on May 18, vacating a trial court’s summary judgment ruling for the defendants in the case....