Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Poway Unified School District
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 13, 2011No. 10-55445PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:
We consider whether a public school district infringes the First Amendment liberties of one of its teachers when it orders him not to use his public position as a pulpit from which to preach his own views on the role of God in our Nation’s history to the captive students in his mathematics classroom. The answer is clear: it does not.
When Bradley Johnson, a high school calculus teacher, goes to work and performs the duties he is paid to perform, he speaks not as an individual, but as a public employee, and the school district is free to “take legitimate and…
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