Social Networks, Public Employees

School Director’s First Amendment Rights Not Violated When Board and Superintendent Criticize his Offensive Social Media Posts

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 3/13/2025

Detschelt v. Norwin School District 23-cv-1402 (W.D. Pa. Dec. 20, 2024). The District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania dismisses complaint filed by school director which alleged that statement issued by the...more

Sixth Circuit Backs Termination of Public Employee for Racially Derogatory Social Media Post on 2016 Presidential Election

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 11/11/2020

On October 6, 2020, in Bennett v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville, No. 19-5818, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a district court’s decision in favor of a public employee who claimed that the city...more

Public Employee Loses First Amendment Retaliation Claim After Publicly Posting A Racial Slur On Facebook That Caused Sufficient...

Roetzel & Andress on 10/14/2020

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Bennett v. Metro. Gov’t of Nashville, recently addressed the issue of whether a public employee’s use of a racial slur when discussing politics on Facebook is sufficiently protected by...more

Public Employee’s Social Media Post Justifies Discharge

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 8/26/2020

Carr v. PennDOT, 2020 WL 2532232 (Pa. 2020) (Pennsylvania Supreme Court sustains the termination of employment of a public employee for a social media post). Background - The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation...more

Fourth Circuit Upholds Termination of Public Employee for Social Media Comments

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 4/14/2017

A politically divided nation can mean a politically divided workplace. While employers generally hesitate to react to employees’ expression of political views, some comments viewed as extreme, threatening or inconsistent with...more

Social Networks › Public Employees

School Director’s First Amendment Rights Not Violated When Board and Superintendent Criticize his Offensive Social Media Posts

Sixth Circuit Backs Termination of Public Employee for Racially Derogatory Social Media Post on 2016 Presidential Election

Public Employee Loses First Amendment Retaliation Claim After Publicly Posting A Racial Slur On Facebook That Caused Sufficient...

Public Employee’s Social Media Post Justifies Discharge

Fourth Circuit Upholds Termination of Public Employee for Social Media Comments

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