Legal Opinion
Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 20, 2011No. 09-1476PublishedCited by 433 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kennedy
Among other rights essential to freedom, the First Amendment protects “the right of the people ... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” U. S. Const., Arndt. 1. This case concerns the extent of the protection, if any, that the Petition Clause grants public employees in routine disputes with government employers. Petitions are a form of expression, and employees who invoke the Petition Clause in most cases could invoke as well the Speech Clause of the First Amendment. To show that an employer interfered with rights under the Speech Clause, the employee, as a general rule,…
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