Case: Individual Employment Rights/Retaliation (W.D.NY.)

A federal district court denied State University of New York at Fredonia’s motion to dismiss First Amendment claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 brought by a philosophy professor who was banned from campus and teaching after making controversial podcast comments about age of consent laws, finding that the professor sufficiently alleged his speech was protected under the First Amendment as a matter of public concern, that being banned from campus and teaching constituted adverse employment actions despite still receiving his salary, and that there was a causal connection between his protected speech and the adverse actions.

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