Hennessy v. City of Melrose

How courts have described this case

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

• oting that it was “prudent and constitutionally appropriate” for a 13 principal to credit a report against the plaintiff from an experienced teacher with no “axe to grind,” especially when the report arose after additional problems involving the plaintiff surfaced
• describing deference owed to government as employer to effect efficient operation and concluding that present case “comes within its heartland”
• reiterating its holding in Gorman that a student has a property interest in his education in the context of disciplinary proceedings
• applying First Amendment to dispute related to teacher-in-training in public university setting

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).