Two social workers who said they were punished for complaining about high caseloads in DeKalb County have lost their opportunity to have their claims heard before a jury.
A federal appeals panel ruled Dec. 21 that the workers’ complaints did not amount to constitutionally protected free speech but instead were internal government work matters. In an unsigned decision, Judges Stanley F. Birch Jr. and William H. Pryor Jr. of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and visiting Senior District Judge John F. Nangle ordered that the workers’ supervisors be granted qualified immunity from the suit and that the case be dismissed.
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