J. Fred Creek v. Village of Westhaven

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• noting that even a racially motivated lawsuit may still be protected as an exercise of free speech
• noting that a racially motivated lawsuit may still be protected as an exercise of free speech
• suggesting in dicta that the First Amendment could not be interposed as a defense in a hypothetical case in which a government actor “writes the sheriff of the county urging him not to hire any black deputy sheriffs”
• distinguishing cases holding \that a municipality cannot interpose the Fourteenth Amendment between itself and the state of which it is the creature\ from those involving a municipality and the federal government or another state
• “[0]dd as it may seem, a racial motivation, to the extent that it lent an ideological hue to the lawsuit, could actually strengthen the case for regarding it as a form of petition for redress of grievances or as an exercise of freedom of speech.”

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