Victory for Police Department’s Right to Fire

In the City of Hays, Kansas, an ex-employee known for union activism sued a police department for firing him. During his lawsuit, an existing employee provided an affidavit in support of the ex-employee. The police department then fired her too, and she subsequently filed her own lawsuit entitled. She insisted that she had a First Amendment right to submit an affidavit in court against the police department without being fired for it.