Legal Opinion
Francis D. Gillard v. Harold F. Schmidt
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 3, 1978No. 77-1957PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROSENN, Circuit Judge.
On February 4, 1976, a political cartoon, drawn over the signature “Ed Ucation,” appeared in a local newspaper of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, the “Fair Lawn Shopper.” The cartoon ridiculed the financial and personnel policies of the Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Board of Education by depicting the Board members as poker players, apparently gambling away employees’ salaries and jobs. At the first meeting of the Board following publication of the cartoon, defendant-appellee Harold Schmidt, an elected member of the Board, directed the Board’s attention to the…
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