Francisco Jose Rivero Pacific Internment Services, a California Corporation v. City and County of San Francisco, and Joseph Surdyka Boyd Stephens

How courts have described this case

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• “Prevailing parties need not have filed cross-appeals in order to correct errors in the district court's reasoning nor to preserve alternative grounds for affirming the judgment.” (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted)
• determining “the outcome of the Pickering bal- ancing test” requires resolving underlying “question[s] of fact”
• applying the public concern test in a case involving government retaliation against an independent contractor
• “The issue is not what the law was or might have been in other circuits in 1993. It is, rather, what the ‘controlling authority in [the defendants’] jurisdiction[was] at the time of the incident.’” (quoting Wilson v. Layne, 526 U.S. 603, 617 (1999)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).