Constitutional law - First Amendment - Fourth Circuit rules that a teacher's selection of school curriculum is not protected speech
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The US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Boring v. Buncombe County County Board of Education denied First Amendment protection to a public school teacher's choice of curriculum. The Court treated the case as a labor grievance and declined to employ the legitimate pedagogical interest doctrine which the Supreme Court established for evaluating free speech claims in relation to school curricula. The 4th Circuit's failure to adhere to precedent will curtail academic freedom.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1999
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Constitutional law - free speech clause - Sixth Circuit classifies computer source code as protected speech
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The author discusses a case in which the 6th Circuit held that computer source code is protected First Amendment speech because of its expressiveness in conveying ideas about computer programming.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 2001
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