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Garcetti V. Ceballos: Stifling The First Amendment In The Public Workplace, Julie A. Wenell
Garcetti V. Ceballos: Stifling The First Amendment In The Public Workplace, Julie A. Wenell
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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Public Employee Speech Rights Fall Prey To An Emerging Doctrinal Formalism, Charles W. "Rocky" Rhodes
Public Employee Speech Rights Fall Prey To An Emerging Doctrinal Formalism, Charles W. "Rocky" Rhodes
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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Board Of County Commissioners V. Umbehr: The Inadequacies Of Extending Pickering Analysis To Government Contractors, Luther D. Tupponce
Board Of County Commissioners V. Umbehr: The Inadequacies Of Extending Pickering Analysis To Government Contractors, Luther D. Tupponce
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
This Note challenges the restrictive First Amendment free speech protection that the Supreme Court gave to government contractors in Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr when it applied the Pickering balancing test, developed nearly thirty years ago in Pickering v. Board of Education in the context of government employees. It does so by first questioning whether the First Amendment free speech protections given to government employees should be similar for government contractors. It then explores whether the Pickering balancing test should be applied to cases involving government contractors as it was in Umbehr.
The author concludes that the Court improperly …