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Firefighters Don't Have to Forfeit Free Speech

Published Monday, January 01, 2007

Unfortunately, First Amendment freedom of speech cases are becoming more common in the fire service. Another one was recently decided in Habel, et al, v. Macomb Township, et al, No. 04-60160, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division (2006). In this case, four Macomb (Mich.) Township Fire Department firefighters brought suit against the department, the township, Fire Chief Raymond Ahonen, Township Supervisor John Brennan and the township clerk, claiming that each had violated the firefighters' First Amendment rights, among others. One of the plaintiffs, Kenneth Meerschaert, began working for the department as a part-time ...

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