182842P.pdf   03/09/2020  Thomas Nagel  v.  City of Jamestown
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-2842
   U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota - Fargo   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Shepherd and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. When plaintiff participated in a TV interview 
   over an alleged whistleblower report he was not speaking as private 
   citizen and his comments were not regarding a matter of public concern 
   but, rather, were made to clear his Facebook alias, a purely private 
   matter; even if plaintiff was a private citizen speaking on a matter of 
   public concern, the defendant's interest in the effective functioning of 
   its police department and preventing disruption, disharmony and loss of 
   morale outweighed plaintiff's interest in commenting; claim plaintiff was 
   deprived of his federal right to due process rejected; the district court 
   did not err in declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over 
   plaintiff's state law claims.