Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit March 13, 1996, No. 94-3358 (Mitchum v. Hurt)

lead-opinion

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALITO, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by three current or former employees of the Veterans Administration Medical Center (“VAMC”) in Pittsburgh, who filed an action against VAMC administrators, claiming, among other things, that the administrators had violated the employees’ First Amendment rights by retaliating against them for making statements intended to