The Sheriff of Kosciusko County, Indiana and the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department are entitled to summary judgment on the due process, First Amendment political retaliation, and constructive discharge claims of a former deputy for the sheriff’s department who had opposed the sheriff in a Republican primary, a federal court in Indiana ruled. An internal investigation of the employee, a 10-day paid suspension, and a 14-day unpaid suspension all constitute a sufficiently adverse action to deter the exercise of free speech, the court found. However, a reasonable jury couldn’t find that the timing of the newly-elected sheriff’s first meeting with merit ...

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