NYC Faces Trial on Covid Speech Claims by EMT, Paramedics, Union

A New York City EMT, three paramedics, and their union can take to trial claims that their free-speech rights were violated by the Fire Department of the City of New York’s temporarily benching the workers for voicing concerns about the Covid-19 pandemic and job conditions to media outlets, a Manhattan federal judge ruled.

Paramedic Megan Pfeffer was quoted in an Australian Broadcasting Corp. article discussing the difficulties she faced working during the early days of the pandemic, when, she said, she suffered from anxiety and crying fits, while colleague Alexander Nunez was captured stating that he and his colleagues were ...