Robert Eaton v. Newport Board of Education, Kentucky Education Association and William Gist

How courts have described this case

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• “The defendants cannot be held liable for their actions in this case, since those actions were protected by the first amendment rights to speak freely and to petition the government.” (emphasis added)
• “That doctrine holds that business interests may combine and lobby to influence the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of government or administrative agencies without violating the antitrust laws, because such activities are protected by the first amendment right of petition.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).