Harold Werkheiser v. Pocono Township

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• noting that “[m]any of the reasons for restrictions on employee speech appear to apply with much less force in the context of elected officials”
• noting that “[m]any of the reasons for restrictions on employee speech appear to apply with much less force in the context of elected officials.”
• identifying intra-circuit tension in the 5th Circuit, noting a dicta rejection of the Bond exception to Pickering/Garcetti4 in the 8th Circuit, and surveying district courts that have fallen on either side of the issue
• First Amendment not intended to “guard against every form of political backlash that might arise out of the everyday squabbles of hardball politics”

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