internal-investigation

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
21-1007	Robert A. Hawkland v. Burke Hall, et al.	Fifth Circuit	2022-01-18	Denied	Response Waived	first-amendment free-speech governmental-agency internal-investigation official-duties public-employee retaliation speech-protection	Without hearing any evidence and contrary to the fact-based allegations of petitioner's complaint that his speech was not made within the ordinary sco…
21-6819	Christopher Varner v. Stan Shepard, et al.	Eleventh Circuit	2022-01-11	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-remedy booth-v-churner civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-requirement internal-investigation prison-conditions prison-grievance ross-v-blake section-1997e	Under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), an incarcerated person cannot bring a prison-conditions action without first exhausting "such administrative remedies as a…
21-792	Michael Billioni v. Bruce Bryant, Sheriff, York County, South Carolina, et al.	Fourth Circuit	2021-11-30	Denied		chain-of-command civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech internal-investigation law-enforcement-misconduct pickering-balancing-test public-employee-speech whistleblower whistleblower-protection	1) Whether a public employee's speech about serious law enforcement misconduct involving an in-custody death has limited weight in the Pickering First…