Justice Nels Peterson, Georgia Supreme Court (Photo: Ashley Stollar)
“This is a case about just how far the First Amendment bends in allowing government to punish its employees for the viewpoints they communicate in their private lives,” Justice Nels Peterson wrote. “I am doubtful that it allowed the punishment imposed here.”
June 04, 2018 at 03:08 PM
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Though she lost her appeal, a teacher may have had her First Amendment rights violated when her principal suspended her for criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement on Facebook, a Georgia Supreme Court justice said in a separate opinion Monday.
The high court, based on sovereign immunity, unanimously declined to review a Georgia Court of Appeals decision dismissing the teacher’s civil suit against school officials.
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