Anderson v. City of LaVergne

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a police department’s policy prohibiting intra-office dating survived rational basis review and noting that “[s]ueh preventative policies are common among government employers”
• holding that a police force policy prohibiting dating between officers of different ranks did not directly and substantially burden the right to intimate association because officers were still free to date anyone other than this small subset of the population
• holding that a police force policy prohibiting dating between officers of different ranks did not directly and substantially burden the right to intimate association because officers were still free to date anyone other than this small subset of the population
• stating that couple in a romantic, sexual, and monogamous relationship have a constitutionally-protected intimate relationship
• stating that couple in a romantic, sexual, and monogamous relationship have a constitutionally-protected intimate relationship
• observing that “courts have recognized both personal friendships and non-marital romantic relationships as the types of ‘highly personal relationships’ within the ambit of intimate associations contemplated by” the constitutional right of freedom to associate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).