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Labor/Employment

Jun. 10, 2006

DAs Deserve as Much Free-Speech Protection as Professors Do

Forum Column - By Michael Halley - Garcetti v. Ceballos marks the first occasion in which the newly constituted Supreme Court has split 5-4 in accordance with the voting blocks anticipated by most observers.

Forum Column

By Michael Halley
     

      Garcetti v. Ceballos marks the first occasion in which the newly constituted Supreme Court has split 5-4 in accordance with the voting blocks anticipated by most observers. The legal issue that provoked this long-awaited fracture was whether a state employee - in this case a deputy district attorney - can pursue a First Amendment cause of action all...

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