Adams v. Trustees of the University of North Carolina-Wilmington

How courts have described this case

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• holding Garcetti does not apply when speech consisted of newspaper columns intended for national audience on issues unrelated to university professor’s teaching duties
• noting that “topics such as academic freedom, civil rights, campus culture, sex, feminism, abortion, homosexuality, religion, and morality . . . plainly touch[] on issues of public, rather than private, concern”
• raising the possibility that public university professors’ speech about 69 “university policy” might fall under Garcetti
• listing “religion” among “topics [that] plainly touched on issues of public, rather than private, concern”
• applying Pickering to claims that a public university professor was retaliated against for his off-campus comments as well as his books and other publications
• extending the First Amendment’s protections to a professor’s writings on “civil rights, campus culture, sex, feminism, abortion, homosexuality, religion, and morality”

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