FREE SPEECH RIGHT - The Supreme Court outlined the test for First Amendment protection of government employees' speech in Pickering v. Board of Educ., 391 U.S. 563 ('68).
But in balancing free speech rights against the rights of secondary employers and the right of Congress to manage interstate commerce, Congress has carved out an important exception to the ban on secondary boycotts by labor unions.
It is a legal rule established to impose a limitation on the First Amendment "free speech rights".
Supreme Court decision in which the Court eased restrictions on political and campaign spending by corporations and labor unions, ruling that such restrictions infringe upon the organizations' First Amendment free speech rights.
See also: First amendment, Amend, Right, Free, Law
 
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