Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Make No Law Episode Three: On The Job

Make No Law Episode Three: On The Job

In episode three of the Make No Law podcast, I look at the complicated question of when the government can fire its own employees for their speech. Has the Supreme Court struck the right balance between the right to free speech and the need of government employers to maintain workplace discipline? I interview Richard Ceballos, a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles who experienced retaliation for questioning a search warrant, and whose case resulted in a very counter-intuitive rule.

Supreme Court opinion in Garcetti v. Ceballos

Oyez page on Garcetti v. Ceballos, including oral argument recordings

Supreme Court's 1968 opinion in Pickering v. Board of Education

Supreme Court's 1983 decision in Connick v. Myers

Demers v. Austin, in which the Ninth Circuit refused to extend the Garcetti rule to state college professors

My lawsplainer on Garcetti and Demers

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