US Supreme Court won’t hear free speech fight over teacher fired for social media posts
By John Kruzel
Washington (Reuters) -ABD Supreme Court rejected on Monday to hear a lawsuit containing a Massachusetts State School teacher who filed a lawsuit for a free speech after firing it in what his school called retaliation for social media tasks before his employment.
Justice, the plaintiff Kari Macrae’s sub -court’s rejection of the case seeking monetary damages from Hanover public schools and school officials. As Macrae claims, the lower court found that the authorities and the region did not violate the first change protection against the abbreviation of the US Constitution of the US Constitution.
Macrae was fired in 2021 after the school officials discovered half -dozen social media mission, which he loved, shared, published or re -published with his Tiktok account, characterized by the authorities as “homophobia, transphobia and racism themes”.
According to the court records, a breast showed a photo of Rachel Levine, who served as the US Deputy Health Secretary during the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden: “I am an expert on mental health and food disorders.” … The obese man who thinks he’s a woman. “Another MEM showed a photo of a muscular, bearded man wearing a sporting sutian with text:” Hello my name is Meagan, I’m here for the girl’s runway meeting. “
Another said, “Dude, racism is stupid. I’m black, white and Asian. But everyone loves me.”
According to the court records, the controversial tasks came months before Macrae was employed by the school.
Macrae is currently working as a Republican for a seat in the Massachusetts State Senate.
Macrae also published a video in Tiktok in 2021, Tiktok in 2021, as a part of a successful proposal in a different school board position in a different school area, where the “critical race theory” should not be taught in public schools and that they can choose whether they want to be a girl or child. “
Macrae was fired about a month after the school area hired him as a mathematics and business teacher. School officials, Macrae’nin termination letter “Social media duties in the light of your employment will have a significant negative impact on student learning,” he said.
In his case, Macrae accused Hanover public schools and school officials of illegal retaliation against him in a speech protected by the first amendment.
The dispute affected the decision of the 1968 Supreme Court, which includes the first amendment rights of public employees. In this case, even though public employees did not lose the right to express themselves on issues that are important, they decided that an employee’s right to free speech should be weighed against the government’s interest in maintaining an uninterrupted workplace.
In a Boston -based Federal judge, the 2023 decision implemented the previous Supreme Supreme Court Decision, and Hanover public schools showed sufficient evidence of the potential of disruption to justify Macrae’s fire. The judge also decided that school officials were entitled to a qualified touched, a legal doctrine that extensively protects public officials from responsibility.
The Boston -based 1st US Circuit Court of Appeal approved Macrae’s decision to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Macrae argued that the Supreme Court’s previous decision should not be valid for the case, as Macrae’s controversial social media tasks were employed by Hanover public schools.
Conservative Justice Clarence Clarence wrote on Monday, while accepting the court’s decision to reject Macrae’s appeal, in a future situation, public employers hopes to explain the opinion that public employers cannot trust their previous decisions to unjustly target the “export” export “.
(Reporting by John Kruzel; Editing by Will Dunham)
