David B. Miller v. Town of Hull, Massachusetts, Etc.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a legislator’s right to vote freely on issues was protected under the First Amendment
• stating that “we have no difficulty finding that the act of voting on public issues by a member of a public agency or board comes within the freedom of speech guarantee of the first amendment”
• finding protected status of voting sufficiently “apparent,” and violation of First Amendment sufficiently “egregious,” to overcome claim of qualified immunity
• “[A]s Bond makes clear, ... the first amendment ... protects the official statements of legislators.”
• in interpreting Creative Environments, court stated: “We held that such claims, [disputes between developers and local planning boards,] do not state a due process violation”
• members of town board of selectmen violated the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act when they discharged members of the town redevelopment authority for speaking out and voting for a project to which the board was opposed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).