24 Cited authorities

  1. Pickering v. Board of Education

    391 U.S. 563 (1968)   Cited 5,652 times   28 Legal Analyses
    Holding teacher's dismissal for criticizing school board unconstitutional
  2. Waters v. Churchill

    511 U.S. 661 (1994)   Cited 928 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that basing a termination decision on "the word of two trusted employees, the endorsement of those employees’ reliability," and "a face-to-face meeting with the employee he fired" was reasonable and "no further time needed to be taken"
  3. United States v. Treasury Employees

    513 U.S. 454 (1995)   Cited 558 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding federal-employee honoraria ban unconstitutional
  4. Painter v. Graley

    70 Ohio St. 3d 377 (Ohio 1994)   Cited 382 times
    Holding that "an exception to the employment-at-will doctrine is justified where an employer has discharged his employee in contravention of a 'sufficiently clear public policy'" such as where "where the public policy alleged to have been violated is of equally serious import as the violation of a statute"
  5. Phillips v. City of Dall.

    781 F.3d 772 (5th Cir. 2015)   Cited 123 times
    Holding that a motion for judgment on the pleadings pursuant to Rule 12(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is subject to the same standards applicable to motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)
  6. Matter of Purdy v. Kreisberg

    47 N.Y.2d 354 (N.Y. 1979)   Cited 249 times

    Argued April 27, 1979 Decided June 12, 1979 Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department. Joel H. Sachs, Town Attorney, for appellants. Paul M. Rosen for respondent. JASEN, J. In this CPLR article 78 proceeding, we are called upon to decide whether the determination of the respondent Board of Police Commissioners of the Town of Greenburgh dismissing petitioner Purdy from the police department is supported by substantial evidence. Petitioner, a veteran

  7. Warder v. Board of Regents

    53 N.Y.2d 186 (N.Y. 1981)   Cited 175 times

    Argued April 28, 1981 Decided June 11, 1981 Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, ELLIS J. STALEY, JR., J., EDWARD S. CONWAY, J. Peter L. Danziger and Barbara G. Billet for appellants. Donald O. Meserve, Robert D. Stone and Jean M. Coon for respondents. Chief Judge COOKE. Petitioners, proposed trustees of the Unification Theological Seminary, challenge as arbitrary the denial of a provisional charter by the Board of Regents. The Seminary, an educational

  8. Harman v. City of New York

    140 F.3d 111 (2d Cir. 1998)   Cited 77 times
    Holding city policy was not "designed to address the asserted harm in a `direct and material way,'" rendering the prior restraint "overbroad" under NTEU
  9. Mtr. of Belmonte v. Snashall

    2 N.Y.3d 560 (N.Y. 2004)   Cited 62 times
    Observing that agency interpretation is entitled to deference if interpretation involves “some type of specialized knowledge,” but that no deference is warranted where “the question is one of pure statutory reading and analysis”
  10. Sanjour v. E.P.A

    56 F.3d 85 (D.C. Cir. 1995)   Cited 74 times
    Holding that an under-inclusive regulation could not survive under NTEU even though the government identified a legitimate interest