Suppan v. Dadonna

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that First Amendment forbids government from retaliating against public employees for engaging in collective bargaining
• finding a factfinder could determine that assigning police officers active in the local union artificially low rankings on a promotion list was sufficient to deter a person from ordinary firmness from exercising his First Amendment rights
• finding a factfinder could determine that assigning police officers active in the local union artificially low rankings on a promotion list was sufficient to deter a person from ordinary firmness from exercising his First Amendment rights
• \It is a question of fact whether the [allegedly adverse action] reached the threshold of actionability under section 1983.\ (citation omitted)
• “[T]he defendants, in proving ‘same decision,’ must prove that the protected conduct was not the but-for cause.”
• “[T]he defendants, in proving ‘same decision,’ must prove that the protected conduct was not the but-for cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).