Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr

Target entity: Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr
Context triple: [United States Supreme Court cases of the Rehnquist Court, significantCase, Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr]

• A. Gebhart v. Belton
  Gebhart v. Belton was a landmark Delaware school segregation case whose rulings in favor of Black students became one of the four consolidated cases decided in Brown v. Board of Education, contributing to the Supreme Court’s rejection of “separate but equal” in public education.
• B. Birchfield v. North Dakota
  Birchfield v. North Dakota is a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held warrantless breath tests are permissible as searches incident to arrest for drunk driving, but warrantless blood tests generally are not.
• C. National League of Cities v. Usery
  National League of Cities v. Usery was a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court case that temporarily limited Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause by holding that federal wage and hour regulations could not be applied to traditional state government functions.
• D. Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting
  Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting is a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld an Arizona law allowing the state to revoke business licenses of employers who knowingly hire unauthorized immigrants, ruling that it was not preempted by federal immigration law.
• E. Ex parte Young
  Ex parte Young is a landmark 1908 U.S. Supreme Court decision that created a legal fiction allowing suits in federal court against state officials to stop ongoing violations of federal law, despite state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr
Target entity description: Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr is a 1996 U.S. Supreme Court decision that extended First Amendment protections to independent contractors against retaliatory termination by government entities for their protected speech.

• A. Gebhart v. Belton
  Gebhart v. Belton was a landmark Delaware school segregation case whose rulings in favor of Black students became one of the four consolidated cases decided in Brown v. Board of Education, contributing to the Supreme Court’s rejection of “separate but equal” in public education.
• B. Birchfield v. North Dakota
  Birchfield v. North Dakota is a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held warrantless breath tests are permissible as searches incident to arrest for drunk driving, but warrantless blood tests generally are not.
• C. National League of Cities v. Usery
  National League of Cities v. Usery was a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court case that temporarily limited Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause by holding that federal wage and hour regulations could not be applied to traditional state government functions.
• D. Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting
  Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting is a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld an Arizona law allowing the state to revoke business licenses of employers who knowingly hire unauthorized immigrants, ruling that it was not preempted by federal immigration law.
• E. Ex parte Young
  Ex parte Young is a landmark 1908 U.S. Supreme Court decision that created a legal fiction allowing suits in federal court against state officials to stop ongoing violations of federal law, despite state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.
• F. None of above. chosen