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Employee Free Speech Rights

Employee Free Speech Rights

July 1, 2011 | Article

Public Employees First Amendment Rights Upheld By Ninth Circuit; School District Employee Engaged in Protected Speech When She Sat Next To Colleague at Board Meeting

We have commented previously about the First Amendment free speech rights of public employees.  In Nichols v...

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June 16, 2010 | Article

Racist Email May Not Constitute Workplace Harassment – Provided It’s Sent to a General Audience

In a case where important legal rights collided, the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a professor who posted racist email on a community college’s web server did not engage in workplace harassment in...

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November 11, 2009 | Article

State Court Follows Federal Precedent in Employee Free Speech Case

The California Court of Appeal has adopted the federal free speech standard in a state case involving a county law librarian who wrote a scathing email about his superiors and was terminated...

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