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 David Hudson serves as an attorney for the First
Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The Center, which is funded
by the Freedom Forum, seeks to foster a greater public understanding and
appreciation for First Amendment rights and values. Hudson writes for the
Freedom Forum's online publication, The Freedom Forum Online, and other
leading publications devoted to First Amendment issues. He contributes regularly to
the American Bar Association's Preview of United
States Supreme Court Cases, the Commercial Speech
Digest and the ABA
Journal.
The First Amendment provides protection to public employees who are
retaliated against for their speech or who lose their jobs due to political
associations. The U.S.
Supreme Court has developed a highly nuanced and complex body of law to
address these issues.
This course seeks to introduce you to some of the leading cases and
principles in this area of the law. Please keep in mind that the federal courts
of appeals may be split on different issues, or apply slightly different
tests. There are even intra-circuit conflicts, as three-judge panel
decisions in the same circuit may analyze public-employee First Amendment
claims differently.
Click here to take this course.
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