United States Second Circuit

Officer's termination from the NYPD, for anonymous dissemination of bigoted racist anti-black and anti-semitic materials, was not in violation of his First Amendment right to exercise free speech; capacity of such statements to damage effectiveness of the police department in the community is "immense."

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/14/2002
• Published 05/14/2002

Judges

• LEVAL, Circuit Judge., Before LEVAL, SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, and McMAHON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher T. Dunn, Amicus Curiae New York Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY, (Arthur Eisenberg on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant., Rosemary Carroll, Carroll & Friess, New York, NY, on the brief for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Margaret King, for Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, NY, (Edward F.X. Hart, Bryan D. Glass, Marta Ross, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.