Supreme Court Case Study

The right to speak and initiate dialogue has been significantly refined. The act of speech has not been limited to verbal or written communication. There are specific forms that have been considered sufficiently expressive to create speech. A fundamental principle for the officer must be to develop speech and the activities protected with the statement, which was a motivating element that gave rise to the adverse employment actions. The defended speech is a questioned by law and the courtroom which will implement the balancing test. The question of protection as an inquiry for the courts(Iannone, 2009). The gateway for determining whether or not the employees speech is constitutionally protected. A public employee statement falls upon matters …show more content…
A supervisor should take certain precautions that will help him avoid the possibility of a costly lawsuit from the procedural oversights in association with disciplinary action made against the employee(Iannone et al., 2009). It was the Supreme Court case in the City of North Muskegon v. Briggs in which the government would have to prove that an employee’s immoral behaviors damaged the department's reputation. The case surrounding Officer Briggs who had been separated from his wife but was cohabitating with another woman. The Chief of Police suspended Briggs for conduct unbecoming of an officer. The Supreme Court ruled that his constitutional right privacy extends to sexual behavior in an intimate relationship between unmarried people(Shafferman, 1984). The determination of interest is problematic to the supervisor especially with a practice that is undesirable like bad debts, excessive off-duty drinking, and cohabitation but not