Spain v. City of Mansfield

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• holding facially unconstitutional a policy requiring firefighters to obtain prior written approval from a superior before engaging in any public communication on matters concerning the fire department rules, duties, policies, procedures, or practices
• striking down regulation requiring prior approval before members of fire department could make public statements on department rules, policies, procedures, or practices as lacking narrow, objective, and definite standards
• fire department rules requiring approval before assistant fire chiefs were permitted to speak out on fire department matters were facially unconstitutional

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).