Jantzen v. Hawkins

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the inquiry “must focus on the inherent powers of the positions and the actual duties performed”
• holding that candidacy for office, standing alone, is not an act of political affiliation; also holding, however, that it is an act of speech relating to a matter of public concern, and applying the Pickering balancing test
• noting that we address separately a political association claim and a free speech claim raised by the same employee
• noting that there are two separate tests for First Amendment retaliation for speech and political affiliation
• relying on actual performance based on \ample proof that [the employees] did effectively perform their jobs despite political differences\
• discussing whether employees \were such important communicators or were privy to confidential information to such an extent that political loyalty would be an appropriate job requirement\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).