Matter of Hey

How courts have described this case

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

• holding judge’s offensive comments made on television show fully protected by First Amendment
• “a ‘state may restrict the speech of elected judges in ways that it may not restrict the speech of other elected officials’”
• “[W]e are mindful of the wisdom expressed in Ashwander v. Tennessee, 297 U.S. 288, 346-47, 56 S.Ct. 466, 482-83, 80 L.Ed. 688, 710-11 (1936) (Brandéis, J., concurring
• “[j]udieial disciplinary proceedings are subjects of the highest public concern”
• “[j]udieial disciplinary proceedings are subjects of the highest public concern”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).