Legal Opinion
Blair v. Bethel School District
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 14, 2010No. 08-35895PublishedCited by 130 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BURNS, District Judge:
Ken Blair maintains his First Amendment rights were violated when his fellow school board members voted to remove him as their vice president because of his relentless criticism of the school district’s superintendent. The district court disagreed, and so do we. To be sure, the First Amendment protects Blair’s discordant speech as a general matter; it does not, however, immunize him from the political fallout of what he says.
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BACKGROUND
Blair has served as a publicly elected member of the Bethel School District School Board since 1999. There are four other Board members,…
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