HERITAGE CONSTRUCTORS v. City of Greenwood, Ark.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating Pickering applies if the plaintiff was a regular provider of services to the government defendant
• describing retaliation cases where “the government[] w[as] not acting . . . as [an] employer[] or contractor[]” as “inapposite”
• analyzing O’Hare Truck as creating a “threshold issue” of whether the plaintiff “had either a pre-existing commercial relationship with the city, or was a regular provider of services to it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).