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United States Civil Service Commission v. National Association of Letter Carriers, 413 U.S. 548 (1973), is a ruling by the United States Supreme Court which held that the Hatch Act of 1939 does not violate the First Amendment, and its implementing regulations are not unconstitutionally vague and overbroad.
The Hatch Act of 1939, An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law that prohibits civil-service employees in the executive branch of the federal government, [2] except the president and vice president, [3] from engaging in some forms of political activity.
The United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government.It is a permanent, investigative, and prosecutorial agency whose basic legislative authority comes from four federal statutes: the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Hatch Act, and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA).
The California Supreme Court ruling curtails the ability of public employees in the state to seek help from the courts in labor disputes.
The ruling, split 6-3 on ideological lines, is the first time the Supreme Court has considered whether an ex-president can be criminally prosecuted for actions taken while serving in the Oval Office.
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The Supreme Court largely rejected the doctrine in Wieman v. Updegraff , 344 U.S. 183 (1952), and a number of high court decisions in areas such as nonpartisan speech, due process , search and seizure , the right to marry , the right to bear children, equal protection , education, and receipt of public benefits over the next two decades ...
The Supreme Court of California is the highest and final court of appeals in the courts of the U.S. state of California.It is headquartered in San Francisco at the Earl Warren Building, [1] but it regularly holds sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento. [2]