free speech rights of government employees

• Bush v. Lucas, 462 U.S. 367 (1983)

... demotion had violated his First Amendment rights. NASA accepted the Board's recommendation that pet...Pp. 374-380. (b) The Government's comprehensive scheme protecting civil servants a...Page 462 U.S. 367, 368. employees who may have been unfairly disciplined for making ... as well as the individual had an interest in free speech, including "a right to disclosure of inform...

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• Establishing a Constitutional Standard That Protects Public School Teacher Classroom Expression

[...] the test contains a third prong, the procedural element of notice, which requires schools to give a teacher fair warning of prohibited conduct prior to taking any retaliatory action against the teacher for engaging in that conduct.

... [n]or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolho... decisions addressing the rights of all government employees to engage in protected speech.23 Other c...

• Journal of Law and Education
• Vol. 38 Nbr. 3, July 2009

• Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., 564 U.S. (2011)

... Speech in aid of pharmaceuticalmarketing, however, is a fform of expression protected bythe Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. As aconseque...Opinion of the Court First Amendment rights as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment, ... but a matter of degree" andthat the "Government's content-based burdens must satisfy the same rigo... speech, thespeech of its own employees, or the regulation-relatedspeech of a firm subj...

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• U.S. Representative Thomas M. Davis Iii (R-Va) Holds a Hearing On Whistleblowers and the Ceballos Decision

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM HOLDS A HEARING ON WHISTLEBLOWERS AND..., NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION. RICHARD BERGSTROM, PARTNER, ... this is a hearing about whistleblower rights, I want to put on the record that Mr. Waxman and I... headline read, "Some whistleblowers lose free speech protections.". The Washington Post reported...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 10, 2009

• Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri, 564 U.S. (2011)

... the opinion of the court.Among other rights essential to freedom, the FirstAmendment prote.... . to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." U. S.Const., Amdt. 1... are a form of expression, and employeeswho invoke the Petition Clause in most cases could invvokeas well the Speech Clause of the First Amendment. Toshow that an emp...

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• Rangra v. Brown, (5th Cir. 2009)

... presented by this appeal is whether speech of elected state and local government officials ma..., like speech of non-elected public employees, is less protected by the First Amendment than oth... of their First Amendment speech rights, brought this § 1983 action in federal district c...7, 2006); see also Ctr. for Individual Freedom v. Carmouche, 449 F.3d 655, 659 (5th Cir. 2006). ....

• Federal Circuits

• Rangra v. Brown, (5th Cir. 2009)

... presented by this appeal is whether speech of elected state and local government officials ma..., like speech of non-elected public employees, is less protected by the First Amendment than oth... of their First Amendment speech rights, brought this § 1983 action in federal district c...7, 2006); see also Ctr. for Individual Freedom v. Carmouche, 449 F.3d 655, 659 (5th Cir. 2006). ....

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• Protesters On Hook for Security Costs

Restrictions irk union leader MADISON -- The head of the largest union representing Wisconsin state workers said Gov. Scott Walker'ss administration is placing unconstitutional restrictions on where signatures to recall the governor from office can be collected. Wisconsin State Employees Union Director Marty Beil sent a letter Wednesday to the secretary of Walker'ss Department of Administration. Beil takes issue with the Walker administration telling state employees they are forbidden from collecting signatures while on state property or during work or their lunch breaks. Beil said that is a violation of the workers's free-speech rights and asked that the policies be rescinded. Department of Administration spokeswoman Jocelyn Webster said the policy has been in effect since 1990 and s...

... of food or other items on state government property, delineates what type of displays are all...

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• December 02, 2011

• Associational speech.

...Associational Speech II. FREE SPEECH DOCTRINE THROUGH AN ASSOCIATIONAL LENS A. DDissident and Subversive Speech B. The Government as Manager--Public Forums and Government Employees... of the First Amendment, notably on the rights of association and assembly. (3) These development...

• Yale Law Journal
• Vol. 120 Nbr. 5, March 2011

• South Carolina v. North Carolina, 558 U. S. (2010)

... funds to make independent expenditures for speech that is an “electioneering communication” or f... claim that the FEC has violated its right to free speech; and (3) the parties cannot enter into a st...: (1) the uncertainty caused by the Government’s litigating position; (2) substantial time would be... to donations from stockholders and employees of the corporation or, in the case of unions, memb... FEC] did not accord [Citizens United] the rights it was obliged to provide by the First Amendment.�...

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