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David Hacker: Professor receives $100,000, exoneration in settlement; court rejects Garcetti?s application to faculty speech

By Alliance Alert

ADF Attorney David Hacker writing at Speak Up Movement / University: "So while the District promised freedom, it still wanted the right to censor and punish faculty for speech it disliked. This is a dangerous position that all faculty should be concerned about, lest they fall into the same trap as Professor Sheldon. The court rejected the District?s Garcetti arguments, refused to dismiss the case, and held that 'a teacher's instructional speech is protected by the First Amendment.' This is one of a handful of rulings nationwide that addresses Garcetti in the classroom and will provide protection to many faculty in the future. Professor Sheldon stood courageously to protect her First Amendment rights in the college classroom. The settlement pays her $100,000 and exonerates her teaching record. But the District?s unwillingness to embrace its proclamations of academic freedom is yet another example of the underlying hostility to free speech in the Academy." | ADF News Release

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 23, 2010 (boomark / email).