State of Iowa v. Jesse Lee McCollaugh

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiff's right to anonymously distribute \offensive racially bigoted materials\ was outweighed by his employer's interest \in promoting the efficiency of the public service it performs\
• explaining that negative “public perception . . . [can] harm the mission of the Police Department”
• explaining that a third-party’s 14 finding of a violation of reasonable agency regulation “is important to our upholding of the 15 lawfulness of the Department’s actions”
• applying the Pickering balancing test after an employee established that he was terminated because of his protected speech
• allowing community reaction to serve as basis for discharge of police officer
• allowing community reaction to serve as basis for discharge of police officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).