badge of infamy
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Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
There can be no dispute about the consequences visited upon a person excluded from public employment on disloyalty grounds. In the view of the community, the stain is a deep one; indeed, it has become a badge of infamy.
Defined by the Supreme Court in - Wieman v. Updegraff, 344 U.S. 183 (1952).