Micah Phillips v. City of Dallas

How courts have described this case

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• concluding Letter Carriers supplants Pickering in cases involving a public employee’s right to seek and hold elected office
• upholding the Dallas resign to run law, which covered city employees seeking public office in any county that had a contractual relationship with the city
• holding that a motion for judgment on the pleadings pursuant to Rule 12(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is subject to the same standards applicable to motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6)
• holding that a motion for judgment on the pleadings pursuant to Rule 12(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is subject to the same standards applicable to motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6)
• “This court has been unequivocal in its recognition of a First Amendment interest in candidacy.”

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