Merrifield v. COUNTY COM'RS FOR COUNTY OF SANTA FE

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• holding that, in the interest of comity, the district court should have remanded a state law claim after it dismissed the claims over which it had original jurisdiction
• holding that “the public-concern requirement” applies to claims of retaliation based on association rights
• stating that federal courts should decline supplemental jurisdiction over state law claims where “there is no controlling precedent” regarding a “principal issue in the state-law claim”
• finding adequate due process where the plaintiff was given “an explanation of the employer’s evidence”
• finding where there was no controlling precedent on an issue of state law, “the interest in comity—leaving the states to decide novel questions of state law—predominates”
• assuming without deciding that retention of an attorney was association because if it were not pro- tected association it “would receive no First Amendment protection whatsoever”

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