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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Section 31-51q

Citation
Section 31-51q
Parent Document
Cotto v. United Technologies Corp., 251 Conn. 1 (1999)
Jurisdiction
Connecticut (state)
Effective Date
1999-10-12

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Thus, when the legislature referred in § 31-51q to the exercise by the employee “of rights guaranteed by the first amendment to the United States Constitution or section 3, 4 or 14 of article first of the Constitution of the state,” that language strongly suggests that it was intended to have the same meaning in the statute that it *28has in its well established constitutional jurisprudence. That meaning plainly is limited to restriction by governmental action.