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Dahlia: a police whistleblower’s First Amendment claim
Detective reported colleagues' abuse of suspects, was threatened, then placed on leave; en banc court overruled Huppert v. City of Pittsburg and held such disclosures can be citizen speech
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What the record says
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 11
- Jurisdiction / date
- Burbank; 9th Cir. en banc 2013
- Mechanism
- Adjacent: administrative leave after whistleblowing (no hold)
- What is documented
- Detective reported colleagues' abuse of suspects, was threatened, then placed on leave; en banc court overruled Huppert v. City of Pittsburg and held such disclosures can be citizen speech
- Finding or status
- JUDICIAL (doctrine) (Public Citizen)
- Limits
- No psychiatric instrument; included because it is the California doctrinal frame for officer-whistleblower retaliation that the Schoolcraft (NY) facts would be litigated under here
- Label
- VERIFIED
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Reference and provenance
2007-2013-CA-BURBANK-DAHLIA