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Second Circuit Clarifies First Amendment’s Protections of Employee Speech: When Is Speech “Pursuant To” Employee’s Duties

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in Litigation

In a case with wide-ranging implications for First Amendment cases in Connecticut (and New York), the Second Circuit today held that a school teacher’s union grievances were not protected speech. The case, Weintraub v. Board of Education of New York (download here) covers a lot of ground, but it chimes in on an issue the… Continue Reading