School DEI Training Appeal Poses Complex Worker Speech Questions

A federal appeals court in St. Louis on Thursday will hear arguments by two public school workers who say job training they received required them to support anti-racism theories, violating their free-speech rights.

Whether an adverse action is needed for government employees to have standing to sue under the First Amendment or whether the infringement alone is sufficient harm are among the main questions raised by Brooke Henderson and Jennifer Lumley in their challenge to a lower court‘s dismissal of their suit against Springfield Public School District. A ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth ...