7th Circ. Backs Ill. Teacher's Firing Over Facebook Posts

By Celeste Bott ( August 27, 2025, 3:36 PM EDT) -- The Seventh Circuit has held that an Illinois public school teacher's First Amendment rights weren't violated when she was terminated for "inflammatory" Facebook posts she made during protests following the police killing of George Floyd, saying the school district's interest in addressing the disruption her posts caused outweighed her free speech interests....

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