Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• finding Postal Worker discharged in violation of the First Amendment was entitled to reinstatement and back pay
• nothing “there are cases where the harmful nature of speech is so apparent that no evidentiary inquiry need be made into actual disruption of the employer’s responsibilities to the public”
• suit alleging postal employee’s discharge was motivated by desire to suppress First Amendment-protected speech
• “The urge to unionize certainly falls within the category of expression that is ‘fairly considered as relating to any matter of political, social, or other concern to the community . . . .’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).