Case: Individual Employment Rights/First Amendment (S.D.W.Va.)

An assistant superintendent with the Board of Education of Cabell County Schools must continue to face a high school teacher’s claim that she was forced to shut down her Twitter account in violation of the First Amendment because of her anti-Muslim posts, a federal court ruled. The assistant superintendent failed to identify a law, manual, directive, or other authority that gave him the power to censure employees’ social media accounts, the court said. The teacher wasn’t speaking pursuant to her school duties when she posted the tweets, which all addressed a matter of public concern, the court said. The “controversial” ...