It wasn’t a trial, but Superior Court Judge John R. Turner heard Monday afternoon from both sides — and all three corners — in former City Manager Frank Parker’s wrongful-firing lawsuit against the city of Statesboro and its elected officials.Attorneys for two different sets of City Council members explained their arguments to have the case decided by summary judgment, short of a trial. Parker’s attorney, Daniel B. Snipes, argued against their reasoning.Parker asserts that he acted as a whistleblower in exposing violations of the Georgia Open Meetings Act with a statement he made during a city staff meeting on June 19, 2014. Five days later, when City Council members voted 3-2 to fire him because of what he had said, the mayor and council violated the Georgia Whistleblower Act by retaliating against him, Snipes argued.But R. Read Gignilliat, as attorney for the city, for Mayor Jan Moore and for the three council members who voted to fire Parker, argued that what Parker said was not specific enough to meet the definition of a whistleblower disclosure.“Specificity is what the statute requires,” Gignilliat told Turner.At the June 19, 2014, department heads meeting, Moore reportedly remarked that recent council debates about a raise for city employees had been contentious but necessarily public.