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1716 A government employee's free speech rights outweighed her employer's interest in maintaining stability in the workplace, so disciplinary action taken against the employee for accurately informing others of a conflict of interest within her department was a violation of her rights, even though the employee may have been motivated by something other than a desire to bring wrongdoing to public attention.CitationKIRCHMANN v LAKE ELSINORE USD (Conflict Fax) 57 CA4 595 [See: Waters v Churchill 511 US 661; Pickering v Bd of Ed 391 US 563; Rankin v McPherson 483 US 378]
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