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Internet Law & Strategy

July 2009

Ninth Circuit Finds No First Amendment Violation in Teacher’s Demotion over Blog Comments

By Tresa Baldas

Delivering a blow to bloggers’ rights, a federal appeals court has ruled that a Washington state teacher’s blog attacking co-workers, the union and the school district was not protected speech, and therefore she was not unlawfully demoted over it.

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