Legal Opinion
Tristan Coomes v. Edmonds School District No 15
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 23, 2016No. 13-35747PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:. We must decide whether a public school teacher speaks as an employee or a private citizen when she voices concerns about the school’s special education program to her supervisors and her students’ parents.
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Tristan Coomes worked for four years at Meadowdale Middle School (“Meadow-dale”), in Edmonds School District (“District”), as the manager of the school’s new Emotional/Behavioral Disorders (“EBD”) program and the primary teacher for students in the program.
Initially, Coomes got along with the administration, including Joe Webster, the Assistant Principal…
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