HARNISHFEGER v. U.S.

No. 18-1865.

943 F.3d 1105 (2019)

Amy HARNISHFEGER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 3, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gavin M. Rose , Attorney, ACLU of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Laura Myron , Attorney, Department of Justice, Office of the Solicitor General, Danielle Wolfson Young , Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Rovner, Hamilton, and Brennan, Circuit Judges.


This appeal deals with First Amendment protection for public employees when they engage in speech that is not related or tied to their work. Plaintiff Amy Harnishfeger authored a short book, published under a pseudonym, about her time as a phone-sex operator called Conversations with Monsters: 5 Chilling, Depraved and...

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