Legal Opinion
Connick Ex Rel. Parish of Orleans v. Myers
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 20, 1983No. 81-1251PublishedCited by 5,276 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
In Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 U. S. 563 (1968), we stated that a public employee does not relinquish First Amendment rights to comment on matters of public interest by virtue of government employment. We also recognized that the State’s interests as an employer in regulating the speech of its employees “differ significantly from those it possesses in connection with regulation of the speech of the citizenry in general.” Id., at 568. The problem, we thought, was arriving “at a balance between the interests of the [employee], as a citizen, in commenting upon matters of public concern…
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