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 * 1) =__Weiman v. Updegraff__ (1952) - Employment could not be based on membership in a group or organization, i.e. The Communist Party and loyalty oaths could not be required.=
 * 2) =__Alder v. Board of Education__ (1952) - Any public employee advocating a violent overthrow of the government could be fired.=
 * 3) =__Sherbert v. Verner__ (1963) - Religious affiliation cannot be grounds for denial of a benefit or privilege. In this case it was in regards to unemployment benefits.=
 * 4) =__Keyishian v. Board of Regents__ (1967) - Restated teachers' rights to belong to associations and organizations, even subversive ones.=
 * 5) =__Pickering v. The Board of Education__ (1968) - Pickering was fired for sending a letter to a newspaper regarding misuse of funds by the school district in which he worked.=
 * 6) =__Sprague v. Fitzpatrick__ (1976) - Termination can be upheld if a working relationship has been destroyed and the employees, therefore, would not be productive working together.=
 * 7) =__Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle__ (1977) - Set a precedent that termination can be upheld, but employers must prove that they would have taken the same action regardless of the employee's constitutionally protected actions.=
 * 8) =__Byrd v. Gain__ (1978) - The court ruled that the police officer's termination was lawful because their speaking out about racial injustice was less important than the public safety issue of the state running safely and orderly.=
 * 9) =__Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District__ (1979) - This case included private conversations in the realm of protected speech.=
 * 10) =__Smalley v. City of Eatonville__ (1981) - The court ruled that an employees termination was lawful based on the fact that a letter to the federal government about corruptions was disruptive to workplace.=