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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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Although the Appellate Court concluded that § 31-51q applies to the present case, it nonetheless determined that the trial court correctly had granted the defendant’s motion to strike because, as a matter of law, the plaintiffs expression merely constituted a personal grievance over his working conditions. Cotto v. United Technologies Corp., 48 Conn. App. 618, 631-32, 711 A.2d *421180 (1998). The complaint provides in relevant part that “[t]he plaintiff declined to display the American flag and further gave his opinion on the propriety of coercing or exerting pressure on employees to display the American flag.”