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Inc. v. City of Northlake O'Hare Truck Service

Further Readings



  • Biskupic, Joan. "It's Speech vs. Spoils In Patronage Dispute." Washington Post, March 19, 1996, p. A03.
  • Chemerinsky, Erwin. "Speech Rights of Government Contractors." Trial, Vol. 33, no. 1, January 1997, p. 64.
  • Eckersley, Brent C. "Constitutional Law: Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr and O'Hare Truck Service v. City of Northlake--The Extension of First Amendment Protection to Independent Contractors--The Garbage Man Can Now Talk Trash!" Oklahoma Law Review, Vol 50., no. 4, winter 1997, pp. 557-583.
  • Jackson, Brian. "First Amendment Rights and Independent Contractors: The Law of Political Patronage and Protected Speech in the Wake of Umbehr and O'Hare Truck Service." The University of Kansas Law Review, Vol. 45, no. 4, July 1997, pp. 1299-326.
  • Koby, Michael H., and Paul Fischer. "The Supreme Court Cries `Foul' to Patronage Contracting: Where Have You Gone Joe McDonough?" New England Review, Vol. 32, no. 1, fall 1997, pp. 1-45.
  • McCahan, Nancy S. "Justice Scalia's Constitutional Trinity: Originalism, Traditionalism and the Rule of Law as Reflected in His Dissent in O'Hare and Umbehr." St. Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 41, no. 4, fall 1997, pp. 1435-76.

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