Pruitt v. Howard County Sheriff's Department

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• police officers’ parody of Hogan’s Heros involving Nazi salutes, clicking heels, and utterances in German was a matter of private amusement, not public concern
• officers who parodied “Hogan’s Heroes” by uttering German words and raising their arms in Nazi-like salutes did not speak on a matter of public concern because the officers only “intended for amusement, bereft of any political content”

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Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kevin Tindle v. Lou Caudell, Individually and in His Capacity as Chief of Police for the City of Little Rock City of Little Rock, Arkansas
  Eighth Circuit· 1995-06-09· cited 90×
• Pappas v. Giuliani
  S.D. New York· 2000-10-26· cited 20×
• Purohit v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-03-31· cited 7×
• Brian Bresnahan v. City of St. Peters
  Eighth Circuit· 2023-01-19· cited 4×
• Pruitt v. Howard County Sheriff's Department
  Supreme Court· 1994-02-22
• (1997)
  Maryland Attorney General Reports· 1997-10-02

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Pickering v. Board of Ed. of Township High School Dist. 205, Will Cty.
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 6,021×
• Connick Ex Rel. Parish of Orleans v. Myers
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-20· cited 5,562×
• Perry v. Sindermann
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,238×
• Cantwell v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1940-05-20· cited 3,669×
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1942-03-09· cited 2,706×
• Withrow v. Larkin
  Supreme Court· 1975-04-16· cited 2,322×
• Branti v. Finkel
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-31· cited 1,881×
• Rankin v. McPherson
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,766×
• Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY
  Supreme Court· 1966-10-17· cited 1,655×
• Gregory v. Ashcroft
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 1,325×
• Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn
  Supreme Court· 1975-03-03· cited 1,289×
• Time, Inc. v. Hill
  Supreme Court· 1967-01-09· cited 933×
• Hortonville Joint School District No. 1 v. Hortonville Education Ass'n
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 493×
• Murphy v. Edmonds
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-02-07· cited 192×
• Police Commissioner v. Dowling
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-11-04· cited 122×
• Berger v. Battaglia
  Fourth Circuit· 1985-12-20· cited 107×
• De Bleecker v. Montgomery County
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-01-08· cited 52×
• Leo G. Zeigler v. James Jackson, Etc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-03-02· cited 48×
• United States v. Martin Blitstein
  Tenth Circuit· 1980-09-17· cited 46×

Other cases named Pruitt v. Howard County Sheriff's Department

4 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Pruitt v. Howard County Sheriff's Department
  Supreme Court· 1994-02-22
• Pruitt v. Howard County Sheriff's Department
  Supreme Court· 1994-02-22
• Pruitt v. Howard County Sheriff's Department
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-03
• Pruitt v. Howard County Sheriff's Department
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-03