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Pickering v. Board of Education
Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 U.S. 563 (1968), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that in the absence of proof of the teacher knowingly or recklessly making false statements the teacher had a right to speak on issues of public importance without being dismissed from his or her position. The case was later distinguished by "Garcetti v. Ceballos", where the Court held that statements by public employees made pursuant to their employment have no First Amendment protection.
" was the former head of security for the agency, who claimed his attempts to root out corruption in the agency had been ignored or frustrated by his superiors. At one point he had discussed it with a reporter from "The New York Times", which eventually published a story about the allegations.
Judge Debra Ann Livingston wrote for a panel that took two years to decide the case. It found that while that act "was" constitutionally protected, the balancing test established by "Pickering v. Board of Education"