Jimmy Blackburn v. Marshall City Of

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• stating protecta-ble interests in employment arise only “where not affirmatively restricted by reasonable laws or regulations of general application”
• collecting cases where pub- lic concern requirement was extended to cover relationships analogous to government employer-employee relationship
• describing cases involving doctors suing public hospitals over staff privileges and licensees suing government agencies, but declining to use public concern test in context of towing company owner who sued police official
• “reject[ing] the district court’s apparent assumption that only public employees enjoy the protections of the First Amendment” and explaining that “[e]very citizen enjoys the First Amendment’s protections against governmental interference with free speech”
• affirming dismissal because the plaintiff did “not allege that the revocation of his police radio privileges and his ineligibility for continued [Harris County Wreckers] Association membership prevent[ed] him from engaging in nongovernment-generated business”
• surveying caselaw from the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh Circuits

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