Legal Opinion
Acevedo v. City of Muskogee
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided April 11, 1995No. 82396PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAUGER, Vice Chief Justice:
A single issue is presented: whether the decision to terminate the appellant, Art Acevedo (Acevedo/detective/employee), satisfies the requirements established by the United States Supreme Court in Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. 138, 103 S.Ct. 1684, 75 L.Ed.2d 708 (1983) for the dismissal of a public employee for exercising a First Amendment1 right to speak. In Connick, the Supreme Court held that for a government employee’s speech to be protected, it must: 1) encompass a matter of public concern; and 2) the employee’s interest in expression must outweigh any injury the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Pickering v. Board of Ed. of Township High School Dist. 205, Will Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Connick Ex Rel. Parish of Orleans v. MyersSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Rankin v. McPhersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Waters v. ChurchillSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Sheldon L. Wulf v. The City of Wichita, Gene Denton, and Richard LamunyonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1989
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Perez-Dickson v. City of BridgeportSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2012
- Williams v. City of Tulsa, OkDistrict Court, N.D. Oklahoma · 2005
- Smith v. State Department of Public SafetyCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 1998
- Shaffer v. City of Muskogee Merit System BoardCourt of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma · 2016
- Acevedo v. City of MuskogeeSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1995
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