pickering-test
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A562 | Jeanne Hedgepeth v. James A. Britton, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Application | first-amendment free-speech pickering-test political-speech public-employee viewpoint-discrimination | Whether a public employer violates the First Amendment by terminating an employee for expressing political views on social media while off-duty | |
| 24-355 | Kari MacRae v. Matthew Mattos, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-09-30 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (16) | constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech-rights pickering-test pre-employment-speech public-employee-speech | Does the Pickering balancing test apply to unrelated, pre-employment speech on matters of public concern? |
| 18-741 | Emily M. Odermatt v. Amy Way, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-benefits pickering pickering-test public-employment public-service public-services | Whether, consistent with the First Amendment and Pickering, the government's ability to remove a valuable financial benefit on the basis of the benefi… |
| 18-282 | Kelly H. Tucker v. Patrick Atwater, Jr., et al. | Georgia | 2018-09-05 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-interests Pickering-balancing-test pickering-test public-employee-speech public-employment public-interest qualified-immunity section-1983 | Whether Pickering and its progeny apply to off-duty public employees speaking on matters of public interest unrelated to their employment, and the app… |