Case: Individual Employment Rights/First Amendment (5th Cir.)

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of First Amendment retaliation and Fourteenth Amendment due process claims brought by a Black special education administrator against Port Arthur Independent School District and other school employees, finding that his reporting of child abuse to his supervisor and participation in a child protective services investigation constituted speech as an employee rather than as a citizen, and thus wasn’t constitutionally protected, and that he received sufficient due process before termination.

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