AJ O'Laughlin v. Palm Beach County

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[I]t is essential to a public employee’s free-speech claim that her speech relate to a matter of public concern.”
• “Although both parties refer in their briefs to the First Amendment’s ‘Free Association Clause,’ the Constitution does not by its terms protect the freedom of association. Rather, association has been characterized as a right ‘implicit’ in the First Amendment.”
• identifying the steps of the balancing test
• identifying the steps of the balancing test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Reverend Stephen Jarrard v. Sheriff of Polk County
  Eleventh Circuit· 2024-09-16· cited 18×
• Zen Group, Inc. v. State of Florida Agency for Health Care Administra
  Eleventh Circuit· 2023-09-13· cited 8×
• Ruby Green v. Howard Finkelstein
  Eleventh Circuit· 2023-07-17· cited 4×
• John Labriola v. Miami-Dade County
  Eleventh Circuit· 2025-07-03· cited 2×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pickering v. Board of Ed. of Township High School Dist. 205, Will Cty.
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 6,021×
• Connick Ex Rel. Parish of Orleans v. Myers
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-20· cited 5,562×
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama Ex Rel. Patterson
  Supreme Court· 1958-06-30· cited 2,614×
• Arnett v. Kennedy
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-17· cited 2,038×
• Roberts v. United States Jaycees
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-03· cited 2,030×
• David Sapuppo, Theresa Sapuppo v. Allstate Floridian Insurance Company
  Eleventh Circuit· 2014-01-07· cited 1,735×
• Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-09· cited 1,018×
• McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission
  Supreme Court· 1995-04-19· cited 940×
• United States v. National Treasury Employees Union
  Supreme Court· 1995-02-22· cited 659×
• City of San Diego v. Roe
  Supreme Court· 2004-12-06· cited 450×
• Board of Directors of Rotary International v. Rotary Club of Duarte
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-04· cited 439×
• Shiver v. Chertoff
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-11-26· cited 315×
• Jean Resnick v. AvMed, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-09-05· cited 281×
• J.R. Bryson, Cross-Appellee v. City of Waycross, C.B. Heys, W. Lynn Taylor, Cross-Appellants
  Eleventh Circuit· 1989-11-30· cited 221×
• Porter v. Califano
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-03-26· cited 140×
• Vivian Hatcher v. Board of Public Education and Orphanage for Bibb County
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-02-17· cited 135×
• William Sanjour v. Environmental Protection Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 1995-05-30· cited 88×
• Dora Elizabeth Cook v. Gwinnett Co. School Dist.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2005-06-29· cited 69×
• Herbert Liverman v. City of Petersburg
  Fourth Circuit· 2016-12-15· cited 66×
• Gary Mitchell v. Hillsborough County
  Eleventh Circuit· 2006-10-31· cited 51×