Boddie v. City of Columbus, Miss.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a reasonable jury could conclude that union association was a substantial or motivating factor in fire fighter’s discharge where evidence showed fire chief had anti-union bias
• accepting plaintiff’s theory that fire chief was the policymaker where plaintiff alleged fire chief had the authority to make official policy decisions for the city on the hiring and firing of firemen
• “We are persuaded that in 1987 it was clear that the First Amendment protects an employee’s right to associate with a union.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).