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Debugging City Hall: The Practical, Ethical, and Litigation Risks of Lindke v. Freed at Two Years While the Supreme Court's two-prong test is now familiar, the operational gap between the doctrine and its daily application remains the hard part for municipal counsel. Lindke v. Freed replaced appearance-based reasoning with a structured test: actual authority to speak for the government on the specific matter, and a purported exercise of that authority in the specific post or moderation action. Lower courts are still working...