Ga. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Teacher’s First Amendment Case

The Supreme Court of Georgia has declined to hear a First Amendment case between a central Georgia teacher and her district’s superintendent and school board chair.

The lawsuit concerns free speech, but the court made its decision on different grounds. Still, the court’s concerns about protecting speech mean future cases might go a different way.

The plaintiff is a Tift County teacher, who’d written derogatory things on Facebook about Black Lives Matter. Her school suspended her for five days, and required her to go to diversity training. She sued.