Case: Individual Employment Rights/First Amendment (S.D.N.Y.)

A New York federal district court granted the City of New York’s motion to dismiss claims brought by a former interim New York Police Department commissioner under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, for First Amendment retaliation and Fourteenth Amendment violations, finding that the RICO claims failed to establish a common purpose among defendants, the First Amendment claims failed because he spoke as an employee rather than a citizen, and the remaining constitutional claims were either subsumed by more specific provisions or lacked factual support.

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