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Bryan v. McPherson , 630 F.3d 805 (9th Cir. 2009), was heard by United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in October 2009. Plaintiff-appellee Carl Bryan was tasered by defendant-appellant Officer Brian MacPherson after being pulled over to the side of the road for failure to wear a seat belt .
It was the first Supreme Court case to consider whether certain methods of states' appointments of their electors were constitutional. [2] The Court, in a majority opinion authored by Chief Justice Melville Fuller , [ 3 ] upheld Michigan's law, and more generally gave state legislatures plenary power over how they appointed their electors.
The CRS report and Williams also note that the Court in McPherson v. Blacker was upholding a law passed by the Michigan Legislature to appoint its electors by popular vote in electoral districts, and in contrast to the NPVIC, in accordance with voter sentiment within Michigan rather than the country as a whole.
In the earlier case, Shanley v. Northeast Independent School District, Bexar County, Texas, the court declined to decide whether Tinker reached off-campus speech. "We do note, however, that it is not at all unusual to allow the geographical location of the actor to determine the constitutional protection that should be afforded to his or her ...
It introduced the test of whether the employee's speech had been on matters of public concern to the balancing of employer and employee interest prescribed in the earlier case. The two would guide the Court's interpretation of later cases such as Rankin v. McPherson [1] (1987). In the 1990s and 2000s, Waters v. Churchill (1994) and Garcetti v.
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Rankin v. McPherson, 483 U.S. 378 (1987), is a major decision of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning the First Amendment, specifically whether the protection of the First Amendment extends to government employees who make extremely critical remarks about the President. The Court ruled that, while direct threats on the President's ...
Paul McPherson, who had limited stints with the Phoenix Suns and Golden State Warriors, is facing multiple charges involving a minor in Duval County. Englewood basketball coach Paul McPherson, a ...