political-retaliation
2 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-658 | Matthew Jones, et al. v. Amber M. King, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Pending | administrative-acts civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity jury-selection political-retaliation | 1. A Texas justice of the peace ordered the wrongful arrests of her political rivals while conducting the "plainly administrative" act of qualifying a… | |
| 19-342 | Mark F. McCaffrey v. Michael L. Chapman, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-balancing law-enforcement law-enforcement-discretion partisan-politics patronage-termination pickering-connick political-retaliation public-employee public-employee-speech public-employment | In Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347 (1976) and Branti v. Finkel, 445 U.S. 507 (1980), the Court recognized a patronage exemption from First Amendment prot… |