Vantassel v. Brooks.U.S. District Court FREE SPEECH RETALIATION RETALIATION. The act by which a nation or individual treats another in the same manner that the latter has treated them. For example, if a nation should lay a very heavy tariff on American goods, the United States would be justified in return in laying heavy duties on the manufactures and Vantassel v. Brooks, 355 F.Supp.2d 788 (W.D.Pa. 2005). A former correctional employee brought a [section] 1983 action against corrections officials, alleging he was discharged in retaliation for exercising his free speech rights. The district court held that the employee's criticisms of a superintendent's expenditures on her state-owned residence involved matters of public concern for the purposes of the employee's retaliation claims. The court noted that the employee complained of the superintendent's excessive spending and misappropriation misappropriation n. the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, an executor or administrator of a dead person's estate, or by any of funds to co-workers and to the superintendent herself. The court denied summary judgment for the defendants, finding genuine issues of material fact as to whether the employee would have been discharged if he had not criticized the superintendent's spending on her residence. (State Correctional Institution Noun 1. correctional institution - a penal institution maintained by the government detention camp, detention home, detention house, house of detention - an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile , Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania Cambridge Springs is a borough in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,363 at the 2000 census. From the late nineteenth into the early twentieth century, Cambridge Springs was known for its mineral springs. ) |
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