Legal Opinion
Jeffries v. Harleston
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 4, 1995No. 953, Docket 93-7876PublishedCited by 131 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:
In Jeffries v. Harleston, 21 F.3d 1238 (2d Cir.1994), we affirmed the district court’s judgment that 15 university officials violated the First Amendment rights of a professor, Leonard Jeffries, by reducing his term as a department chairman because of a controversial speech (the “Albany speech”) he had given off campus. Our decision rested on what we understood to be the applicable rule that the government cannot take action against an employee for speaking on public issues, unless it first shows that the speech actually “impaired the efficiency of government…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Connick Ex Rel. Parish of Orleans v. MyersSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Rankin v. McPhersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NYSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Waters v. ChurchillSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
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3Cited by131 opinions
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