Long Island Teacher’s Firing Over Nude Selfie May Violate Rights

A Long Island school district and its superintendent must continue to defend a novel lawsuit by a middle school teacher who says she was fired for a nude selfie because she is a woman, the Eastern District of New York ruled Thursday.

The strictly private transmission of the cellphone photo makes this case different from those where treating female breasts differently from male breasts in public settings has been allowed, the court said.

Lauren Miranda took the photo of her face and bare breasts a few years earlier, when she was dating a male teacher. She says she only sent ...