your honor, this is case number 225 on the calendar in the matter of kavanagh-gooden vs. baum-felliom. >> judge judy: thank you. >> byrd: you're welcome, judge. parties have been sworn in. you may be seated. have a seat. >> judge judy: how old are you? >> i'm 17. >> judge judy: is this your mother? >> yeah. yes. >> judge judy: hmm. what's your first name? >> brittany. >> judge judy: you weren't there that day, were you? >> no. >> judge judy: you can have a seat. wh y

the other important interest of a merit based work force is appropriate and as judge kavanagh indicated in citizens united which was one of those cases where the supreme court indicated that generally when restricting campaign funding appearance of corruption and corruption are the only interests that can be served, the court specifically noted that the letter carriers mentioned in interest in the, in effective government functions and that the congress has a right to ensure that those functions can be served without partisan -- >> isn't it a little bit different from mccutcheon, letter carriers, kind of a pickering analysis with more consideration of governmental interests, is that where you also rest your case? or not so much? >> i think the closely drawn crutiny is comparable to the approach so closely drawn scrutiny as we saw in mccutcheon there has to be important government interests and congress does have to employ them in a means that permit some expression of the employee just like in the approach for contractors in pickering for employees. there does have to be -- congress doe

whether bans on campaign contributions are first amendment problems in that they apply as judge kavanagh said also to government employees. so we have not only the concern about quid pro quo corruption and the appearance thereof but also the concern about the neutrality of the civil service. >> i agree your honor that the neutrality of the civil service and the judiciary are very important and would sustain it. congress has made a decision with respect to the neutrality of the federal service that banning contributions is not an essential element. >> well, it has done other things which may be more strict with respect to federal employees as you know under the hatch act. so there's a different kind of balancing here. it's given them the protection of the merit systems protection board which is not available to the independent contractor. so congress is, if you're saying congress has made this determination and we should defer to it you've pretty much talked yourself out of court haven't you? frpblts well, your honor, if congress had actually sat down with the federal election campaign ac

captions paid for by cbs television distribution 17-year-old katherine "katie" kavanagh, her father daniel jessica gooden are suing 17-year-old brittany baum and her mother kathleen felliom for an assault

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