Bala v. Commonwealth

Dissenting Opinion by

Judge Rogers :

I must respectfully dissent. The Board denied unemployment compensation benefits to one who was discharged from his work for exercising his right of freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States without a showing of a compelling State interest justifying its action.

The United States Supreme Court has written:

For at least a quarter-century, this Court has made clear that even though a person has no ‘right’ to a valuable governmental benefit and even though the government may deny him the benefit for any number of…