Jack Muller v. James B. Conlisk, Harold Brown, James Dunworth, and William Hougesen

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting contention that a different standard should apply due to the quasi-military nature of a police department — this simply influences the Pickering balance
• observing the threat of sanctions may constitute a First Amendment injury
• regulation prohibiting “ ‘any activity, conversation, deliberation, or discussion which is derogatory to the [Chicago Police] Department or any member or policy of the Department’ ”
• mere threat of sanctions may be sufficient to allege First Amendment injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).