Sunflower County, Mississippi is entitled to judgment on the pleadings on the First Amendment retaliation claim of a county administrator alleging he was fired in retaliation for reporting an illegal purchase of a garbage truck by the county’s board of supervisors, a federal district court in Mississippi ruled. The county argued that the board didn’t do anything improper because it had emergency powers to purchase needed equipment without the normal bid process, due to a declared state of emergency related to Covid-19, and that the administrator couldn’t show he spoke as a citizen on a matter of public concern. The ...

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