A federal appeals court panel in Cincinnati expressed skepticism that an official at the Tennessee Supreme Court’s legal ethics board should be able to avoid a lawsuit by a lawyer who says his termination for tweeting about Muslims violated his First Amendment rights.
Judges on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit pushed back during oral argument Wednesday on the claim that the employment decision merited immunity because it was a judicial function meant to protect the integrity of the disciplinary process for attorneys practicing in the state.
The case has the potential to clarify the boundary between ...
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