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Fifth Circuit· 7/20/2007

Jenevein v. Willing

Citations

  • 493 F.3d 551
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 17320
  • 2007 WL 2069956

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that Pickering is inapplicable “for sorting the free speech rights of employees elected to state office”
  • concluding that Pickering is inapplicable “for sorting the free speech rights of employees elected to state office”
  • holding that Texas's judicial ethics canon that prohibited the \appearance of impropriety\ failed strict scrutiny as applied to a judge who spoke publicly about a case pending in another court
  • declining to “draw directly upon the Pickering-Garcetti line of cases” when reviewing restrictions on a sitting judge’s speech to his constituency; “as an elected holder of state office, his relationship with his employer differs from that of an ordinary state employee”
  • “as an elected holder of state office, his relationship with his employer differs from that of an ordinary state employee”
  • “We are persuaded that the preferable course ought not draw directly upon the Pickering-Garcetti line of cases for sorting the free speech rights of employees elected to state office.”

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Judges: Higginbotham, Wiener, Clement

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