United States Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Border Patrol, El Paso, Texas v. Federal Labor Relations Authority

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• upholding regulation prohibiting INS border patrol agents from wearing adornments, including union pins, on their uniforms
• assuming without deciding that wearing a union lapel pin was matter of public concern
• rejecting challenge to anti-adornment policy brought by border patrol agent desiring to wear union-related pin and noting that union pins “would interfere with an appearance to the public of neutrality and impartiality”
• defining the “special circumstances test” as “widely applied” by the National Labor Relations Board

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