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
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7898264/cotto-v-united-technologies-corp/ ↗

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It requires the examination of only two cases to demonstrate this point. In Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. 138, 140, 103 S. Ct. 1684, 75 L. Ed. 2d 708 (1983), the plaintiff was an assistant district attorney in New Orleans, and the defendant district attorney was her employer. Following a dispute between them regarding his desire to *34transfer her to a different section of the criminal court, the plaintiff had circulated to fifteen other assistant district attorneys a questionnaire soliciting their views concerning the office transfer policy, office morale, the need for a grievance committee, the level of confidence in supervisors, and whether employees felt pressured to work in certain political campaigns.7 Id., 141. The defendant discharged the plaintiff because of her refusal to accept the transfer and because he considered the distribution of the questionnaire to be an act of insubordination. Id. The plaintiff brought an action against the defendant under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that he had discharged her for exercising her constitutional right to free speech. Id.

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