According to the Pasadena Star News: A computer administrator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who was laid off last week plans to add retaliation charges – and a possible free speech violation claim – to a pending discrimination suit against his former employer, an attorney said Wednesday.

You can read the full PSN story here.
Please call (preferably) or at least email Charles Bolden, NASA’s administrator, to express your outrage at the fact that Coppedge was fired. Here’s the contact information: phone: 202-358-1010 and email: charles.bolden@nasa.gov.
For more background on the Coppedge case go here.