WRITE ON PACKET CONTENTS
Georgetown University Law Center
2015 Write On Competition
This document lists the primary and secondary sources included in the 2015 Write On
Competition and summarizes the cases. Following the principal case (on which you should focus
your case comment) are the remaining sources listed by type.
Principal Case (9 pages)
Domenic J. Curinga v. City of Clairton
357 F.3d 305 (3d Cir. 2004) (9 pages)
U.S. Supreme Court Cases (54 pages)
Marvin L. Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205
391 U.S. 563 (1968) (11 pages)
Richard J. Elrod v. John Burns
427 U.S. 347 (1976) (23 pages)
Board of County Commissioners, Wabaunsee County v. Keen A. Umbehr
518 U.S. 686 (1996) (11 pages)
O’Hare Truck Service, Incorporated, et al. v. City of Northlake, et al.
518 U.S. 712 (1996) (9 pages)
U.S. Circuit Court Cases (192 pages)
Jimmie McBee v. Jim Hogg County, Texas
730 F.2d 1009 (5th Cir. 1984) (17 pages)
Hipolito Rodriguez Rodriguez v. Nicholas Munoz Munoz
808 F.2d 138 (1st Cir. 1986) (11 page)
Sydney O. Hall v. Claude A. Ford
856 F. 2d 255 (D.C. Cir. 1988) (13 pages)
O’Neal Terry v. A.C. Cook
866 F.2d 373 (11th Cir. 1989) (8 pages)
Dr. Nolan L. Kinsey v. Salado Independent School District
950 F.2d 988 (5th Cir. 1992) (14 pages)
Roy Wilbur v. Charles L. Mahan
3 F.3d 214 (7th Cir. 1993) (7 pages)
Richard Mark Cutcliffe v. Ronald Cochran
117 F.3d 1353 (11th Cir. 1997) (8 pages)
Steven Douglas Jenkins v. Bobby Lee Medford
119 F.3d 1156 (4th Cir. 1997) (21 pages)
Albert R. McEvoy v. John Spencer
124 F.3d 92 (2d Cir.1997) (15 pages)
Julie H. Biggs v. Best, Best & Krieger
189 F.3d 989 (9th Cir.1999) (10 pages)
Lisa Dangler v. New York City Off Track Betting Corporation
193 F.3d 130 (2d Cir.1999) (13 pages)
Jana Barker v. City of Del City
215 F.3d 1134 (10th Cir.2000) (7 pages)
Gary W. Rose v. Robert F. Stephens
291 F.3d 917 (6th Cir.2002) (8 pages)
Charles M. (Micky) Gentry v. Lowndes County, Mississippi
337 F.3d 481 (5th Cir. 2003) (8 pages)
Valerie Montone v. City of Jersey City
709 F. 3d 181 (3d Cir. 2013) (18 pages)
Ron Nord v. Walsh County
757 F.3d 734 (8th Cir. 2014) (14 pages)
U.S. District Courts and State Courts (35 pages)
Donald L. Meek v. County of Riverside
982 F. Supp. 1410 (C.D. Cal. 1997) (12 pages)
Savoy of Newburgh, Inc. v. City of Newburgh
657 F. Supp.2d 437 (S.D. N.Y. 2009) (9 pages)
Robert De La Garza v. Kirby Brumby
2013 WL 754260 (S.D. Tex. 2013) (7 pages)
Melanie Lawson v. Union County Clerk of Court William F. “Freddie” Gault
2014 WL 6460598 (D. S.C. 2014) (7 pages)
Constitutional and Statutory Provisions (2 pages)
U.S. CONST. amend. I (1 page)
42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 (1996) (1 page)
Secondary Sources – Legal (25 pages)
Recent Case, First Amendment—Patronage Terminations—Fourth Circuit Holds that
Deputy Sheriffs May be Fired Because of Political Affiliation—Jenkins v. Medford, 119
F. 3d 1156 (4th Cir.1997)(en banc) cert. denied, 118 S.Ct. 881 (1998), 111 HARV. L. REV.
1596 (April, 1998) (7 pages)
Alex Schoephoerster, Finding a Uniform Application of Law to Protect Public Employee
Political Speech and Political Affiliation, 29 ABA J. LAB. & EMP. L. 563 (Spring, 2014)
(18 pages)
Secondary Sources – Popular (9 pages)
Timothy Noah, Can Your Boss Fire You For Your Political Beliefs?, SLATE (July 1,
2002),
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2002/07/can_your_boss_fire
_you_for_your_political_beliefs.html. (2 pages)
Politics in the Workplace: An Employer's Election-Year Guide, HR HERO (Aug. 2012),
available at http://www.hrhero.com/whitepapers/index.cgi?pc=wppiw& (5 pages)
Parimal M. Rohit, Santa Monica City Employee Fired: Possible Lawsuit, Investigation,
SANTA MONICA MIRROR (June 13, 2014), http://www.smmirror.com/articles/News/SantaMonica-City-Employee-Fired-Possible-Lawsuit-Investigation/40420 (2 pages)