Walton County, Georgia isn’t entitled to summary judgment on the First Amendment retaliatory discharge claim of a parks and recreation athletics division manager who was terminated after filing a defamation action against a county commissioner and a county employee, a Georgia federal court ruled. The employee’s defamation action was a matter of public concern because part of its purpose was to highlight alleged corruption in the county’s hiring process and draw attention to official misconduct, and an email he sent to a state peace officer standards and training council was also a matter of public concern because it asserted that ...

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