The Eleventh Circuit seemed somewhat open Friday to reviving part of a Christian former Miami-Dade County media aide’s First Amendment lawsuit over an opinion piece he posted online that criticized “sexual and gender ideologies.”
John Labriola was suspended, ordered to undergo training, and later fired from his job with the Board of County Commissioners for refusing the training. A lower court rejected Labriola’s free-speech, religious freedom, and freedom of the press claims, as well as his claim that the anti-discrimination policy under which the county acted is unconstitutionally overbroad.
The oral argument before US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh ...
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