Golodner v. Berliner

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the government may not “terminate their relationships with independent contractors because of the contractors’ speech.”
• stating that “exposure of official misconduct . . . is generally of great consequence to the public”
• conducting a clearly established law analysis despite neither party addressing the analysis “in any helpful way”
• “Few issues related to qualified immunity have caused more ink to be spilled than whether a particular right has been clearly established.”
• “Based on the relevant case law at the time of the individual defendants’ alleged retaliatory actions, we have no trouble concluding that the constitutional right implicated here was clearly established.”
• “We may address these questions in either .order ____”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).