Berger v. Battaglia

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that while “the special dilemma presented for the Police Department here can only excite judicial sympathy .... the Department ... could not respond as it did consistently with the first amendment”
• “[T]hreatened disruption by others reacting to public employee speech simply may not be allowed to serve as justification for public employer disciplinary action directed at that speech.”
• “[T]hreatened disruption by others reacting to public employee speech simply may not be allowed to serve as justification for public employer disciplinary action directed at that speech.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).