Lynch v. Ackley

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a series of actions taken over a period time . . . , when viewed in the aggregate, could amount to ‘discipline’”
• recognizing that employees have a “First Amendment interest in expressing support for a candidate for election to public office” and stating that “[e]ndorsements of candidates for political office are at the core of First Amendment protected speech”
• recognizing that employees 6F have a “First Amendment interest in expressing support for a candidate for election to public office” and stating that “[e]ndorsements of candidates for political office are at the core of First Amendment protected speech”
• observing that “[l]abor versus management disputes . . . often have a strong flavor of ‘personal grievance’ notwithstanding that the personal grievance is shared by numerous employees”
• noting that a union employee’s freedom of association claim “is subject to the same analysis as. . .[plaintiff’s] First Amendment free-speech right”
• noting that “not . . . all activities undertaken through a union necessarily become matters of public concern merely by virtue of their collateral connection to the union”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).