International Ass'n of Firefighters Local 3233 v. Frenchtown Charter Township

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• invalidating a fire department policy permitting only the fire chief to release facts regarding fire department matters, fires, or other emergencies to the news media
• ban merely conjectural because ordinance which prohibited all department members from discussing anything department related overinclusive and banned innocent speech
• combination of town ordinance and fire department personnel policy had the effect of prohibiting all department members from speaking to the media or public about fire department affairs was a prior restraint of speech
• ‘When, in contrast, the restriction on speech takes the form of a pre-speech threat of punishment that deters employees from engaging in the speech, the proper test is the more stringent one elucidated in NTEU”
• “collective bargaining is a matter of public concern”
• \collective bargaining is a matter of public concern\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).