A Reasonable Public Servant: Constitutional Foundations of Administrative Conduct in the United States: Constitutional Foundations of Administrative Conduct in the United States
, by Lee; Lily Xiao Hong- ISBN: 9780765616456 | 0765616459
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 9/30/2005
Foreword | |
Preface and Acknowledgments | |
Constitutional Foundations of Public Service | |
The Constitution and a Reasonable Public Servant | |
Contractarianism | |
Incursion on Constitutional Rights | |
The Least Restrictive Alternative and Narrow Tailoring | |
Overbreadth | |
Underinclusiveness | |
Chilling Effect | |
Vagueness | |
Constitutional Law as a Work in Progress | |
Conclusion: Integrating Constitutional Law into Job Performance | |
Personal Responsibility | |
Legal Complications with Personal Liabilility | |
A Framework for Qualified Immunity | |
The Institution of Summary Judgment | |
The Standard of a Reasonable Judgment | |
Rationale for the Objectively Reasonable Conduct | |
Contours of Clearly Established Rights | |
Qualified Immunity as a Balancing Act | |
Data from Federal Courts | |
Nature of Complaints | |
Results of Summary Judgment on Qualified Immunity | |
Interlocutory Appeals | |
Discussion and Conclusion | |
Official Responsibility | |
Ambiguity of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 | |
The Case of | |
Monell v. New York City Department of Social Services: From Absolute Immunity to Absolute Liability | |
Distinction between Official and Personal Capacity Conduct | |
Respondeat Superior Theory | |
Causation and Moving Force Theory | |
Deliberate Indifference to the Rights of Individual Citizens | |
Deliberate Indifference to Plainly Obvious Risks | |
Damages Liability | |
Conclusion: Moral Responsibility of the Public Official | |
Constitutional Rights of the Public Servant | |
Property Rights, Liberty, and Procedural Due Process | |
The Plight of Jo-Anne Coleman | |
Property Interests in Employment | |
The Doctrine of Privilege | |
Recognition of Property Interest in Employment | |
Sources of Expectation | |
Liberty Interest in Employment | |
Procedural Due Process | |
Conclusion: Justice as Fundamental Fairness | |
Freedom of Critical Speech | |
Motivations of Critical Speech | |
The Public Reason for Pickering v. Board of Education | |
An Evolving Framework for Balancing Analysis | |
Elucidation of the Public Concern Doctrine | |
Power of Government as Employer | |
Constitutional Relief | |
Conclusion: Unintended Benefits of Critical Speech | |
Right to Privacy | |
Evolution of the Right to Privacy | |
Right to Be Let Alone | |
Zones of Privacy | |
Privacy of Personal Information | |
Limits to Informational Privacy | |
The Privacy Information in Public Management | |
Expectatio of Privacy in the Workplace | |
Standards of Search with Suspicion of Misconduct | |
Standards of Search without Individualized Suspicion | |
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 v. Philadelphia | |
Conclusion | |
Equal Protection and Affirmative Action | |
Defunis v. Odegaard: An Early Look at the Equal Protection-Affirmative Action Conundrum | |
Equal Protection Analysis | |
The Top Tier: Strict Scrutiny | |
Grutter, Gratz, and Contemporary Affirmative Action | |
Diversity in Public Sector Workforces | |
The Lowest Tier: Ordinary Scrutiny and the Rational Basis Test | |
The Middle Tier: Intermediate Scrutiny | |
Classifications and Fundamental Rights | |
Conclusion: Classifications, Stereotypes, Irrebuttable | |
Presumptions, and the Reasonable Public Servant | |
Civil Rights of a Public Servant | |
Discrimination in Employment | |
Equal Employment Opportunity | |
Unlawful Discrimination | |
The Disparate Impact Approach | |
The Disparate Treatment Approach | |
Modifying the Disparate Impact Approach | |
Modifying the Disparate Treatment Approach | |
The Final Burden of Persuasion | |
The Pretext Theory | |
Employer Liability | |
Summary and Concluding Observation | |
Sexual Harassment and Employer Liability | |
Sexual Harassment as a Civil Rights Issue | |
Forms of Sexual Harassment | |
Agency Theory and Employer Liability | |
Employer Liability in Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment | |
Employer Liability in Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment | |
Problems of Quid Pro Quo and Hostile Environment Categories | |
Hostile Environment Constructive Discharge | |
Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment by Coworkers | |
Sexual Harassment and Public Policy | |
Americans with Disabilities | |
The Structure of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 | |
A Profile of Workplace Disabilities | |
Attributes of a "Disabled" Person | |
Disability in Reference to a Mitigated State | |
Disability in Reference to a Broad Class of Work | |
Disability by Reference to Major Life Activities | |
Record of a Disability | |
Regarded as Disabled | |
Meaning of a Qualified Person with a Disability | |
Ability to Perform Essential Job Functions | |
Ability to Meet Qualification Standards | |
Presenting No Threat to the Health and Safety of Others and Self | |
Preemployment Inquiries | |
Reasonable Accommodation | |
Relief and Damages Liability | |
Conclusion: Pushing the Frontiers of Human Rights | |
Conclusion | |
The World of a Reasonable Public Servant | |
The Relationship of the Public Servant to the Constitution | |
The Power and Responsibility of a Reasonable Public Servant | |
Implications of Bounded Constitutional Rights for Public Servants | |
Public Management, Unsung Heroes, and Constitutional Values | |
The Constitution of the United States of America | |
The Bill of Rights and Additional Amendments | |
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as Amended | |
Glossary | |
Index | |
About the Authors | |
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