A Detroit-area financial officer who won a $180,000 jury verdict successfully fended off a Sixth Circuit appeal in his lawsuit saying his retirement benefits were improperly suspended after he spoke out about municipal pension mismanagement.
The officer lost about $5,400 per month in pension benefits after blowing the whistle on alleged errors that he says caused Wayne County, Mich., retirees to have their benefits shortchanged, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said Tuesday in an unpublished opinion. The district court therefore correctly ruled that the officer had demonstrated two elements of his First Amendment retaliation claim—constitutionally ...
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