Elrod v. Burns, No. 74-1520 (U.S. Supreme Court) (427 U.S. 347; 96 S.Ct. 2673) (June 28, 1976) (Justice Brennan)
Case held that patronage dismissals severely restrict political belief and association, which constitute the core of those activities protected by the First Amendment.
Here the Court noted that the First Amendment is implicated whenever free speech is "either threatened or in fact being impaired at the time the relief [is] ...
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