Legal Opinion
Bruno Mpoy v. Michelle Rhee
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 15, 2014No. 12-7129PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge GARLAND.
GARLAND, Chief Judge:
Bruno Mpoy, a former District of Columbia special education teacher, alleges that his school principal and the chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools terminated him because of an email he sent to the chancellor. Mpoy contends that one sentence in that email constituted speech protected by the First Amendment, and that his termination therefore violated the Constitution. The district court determined that the email did not constitute protected speech, and that even if it did, the individual defendants were…
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