JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:
The issue is whether, consistently with the first amendment, the Baltimore Police Department could condition the continued employment of one of its police officers upon his cessation of off-duty public entertainment performances in blackface that members of Baltimore's black community found offensive. In this action by the police officer against the Department under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the district court, applying the balancing...
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