Legal Opinion
Waters v. Churchill
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 31, 1994No. 92-1450PublishedCited by 995 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice O’Connor
in which The Chief Justice, Justice Souter, and Justice Ginsburg join.
In Connick v. Myers, 461 U. S. 138 (1983), we set forth a test for determining whether speech by a government employee may, consistently with the First Amendment, serve as a basis for disciplining or discharging that employee. In this case, we decide whether the Connick test should be applied to what the government employer thought was said, or to what the trier of fact ultimately determines to have been said.
I
This case arises out- of a conversation that respondent Cheryl Churchill had on January 16, 1987, with Melanie…
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