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Court broadly defines job-related speech in upholding Delaware professor’s dismissal

(March 30, 2009)

By PETER SCHMIDT

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held on Friday that a public-college professor’s statements can be considered job-related, and thus not “citizen speech” protected by the First Amendment, even if they were made in connection with activities not specifically covered by the professor’s contract.

Affirming a decision by a lower court last year, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit, which covers several mid-Atlantic states, ruled that Delaware State University was entitled to fire a communications professor for statements he made about a university presidential search, in reference to his organizing a campus breakfast, and in relation to advising his students……….

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Publication: The Chronicle of Higher Education