Broderick v. Police Commissioner of Boston

How courts have described this case

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

• inquiry into private affairs of a police officer’s life is permissible where it bears a sufficiently rational connection to the officer’s fitness and ability to serve in his position
• policemen accused of disruptive conduct during Law Day celebration could be required to answer written questions about the alleged incidents, inasmuch as they had “surrendered [their right of privacy] by public display.”
• a right of privacy may be surrendered by public display

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).