History may describe the Connecticut Supreme Court’s 2012-2013 term as the “eye of the hurricane” with respect to First Amendment and freedom of information cases.
The immediately preceding year—the leading edge of the storm—produced several important free speech cases involving the rights of public and private employers to terminate employees based on workplace-related speech (Perez-Dickson v. City of Bridgeport and Schumann v. Dianon Systems Inc.). It also produced an important Freedom of Information Act decision concerning access to UConn trade secrets, University of Connecticut v. Freedom of Information Commission.
