free-speech-balancing

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-342 Mark F. McCaffrey v. Michael L. Chapman, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-balancing law-enforcement law-enforcement-discretion partisan-politics patronage-termination pickering-connick political-retaliation public-employee public-employee-speech public-employment In Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347 (1976) and Branti v. Finkel, 445 U.S. 507 (1980), the Court recognized a patronage exemption from First Amendment prot…