No. 23A383

Alessandra Nicole Rogers v. Stanton Riggs, et al.

Lower Court: Tenth Circuit
Docketed: 2023-10-26
Status: Presumed Complete
Type: A
Tags: first-amendment garcetti-pickering group-speech public-concern public-employees summary-judgment
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the Tenth Circuit's application of the Garcetti/Pickering test to analyze a group's concerted speech to elected officials was appropriate in light of this Court's decisions in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448, 2472-73 (2018) and United States v. Nat'l Treasury Emples. Union, 513 U.S. 454, 466-67, 115 S. Ct. 1003, 1013 (1995) which hold that Garcetti/Pickering was not intended for use in analyzing group speech under the First Amendment.

Whether a Party can be properly "put on notice" to prospectively argue defenses to issues not raised by the movant on summary judgment, merely because a legal test was mentioned in a previous Court order.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the First Amendment protects group speech by public employees petitioning elected officials about workplace concerns under an expanded Garcetti/Pickering analysis that considers the collective nature of the speech

Docket Entries

2023-10-26
Application (23A383) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until December 18, 2023.
2023-10-24
Application (23A383) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 2, 2023 to December 18, 2023, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.

Attorneys

Alessandra Nicole Rogers
Heather Cristin McCarthy BurkeBurke Law, Petitioner