Iden v. New York Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that retaliatory action taken solely because of the protected speech of a close family member is actionable under the First Amendment
• holding that retaliatory action taken solely because of the protected speech of a close family member is actionable under the First Amendment
• holding that a public employee stated a First Amendment claim arising from his retaliatory discharge arising from his wife’s lawsuit
• holding that claim that husband was terminated from public employment in retaliation for wife’s lawsuit alleging employment discrimination was rightly brought under First Amendment as an intimate association claim
• holding that “separately numbered 11 allegations in the complaint” could be construed “as alternative theories” and that a specific 12 pleading/designation of “in the alternative” was not required
• holding that “a spouse's claim that adverse action was taken solely against [him] in retaliation for [the] conduct of 23 24 [his] spouse should be analyzed as a claimed violation of a First Amendment right of 25 intimate association”

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