political-retaliation

2 cases — ← All topics

Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-658 Matthew Jones, et al. v. Amber M. King, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending administrative-acts civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity jury-selection political-retaliation 1. A Texas justice of the peace ordered the wrongful arrests of her political rivals while conducting the "plainly administrative" act of qualifying a…
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 Does the investigation of violent crimes and other essential law enforcement tasks that require professional judgment and discretion so involve partis…