Renken v. Gregory

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the speech of a professor who spoke out against the funding decisions of a supervisor was made pursuant to official duties
• applying Garcetti to a First Amendment claim brought by a university professor who alleged he was retaliated against after he “complained about the University’s use of grant funds”
• applying Garcetti to hold that the First Amendment did not protect a professor’s speech relating to a university’s use of funds
• state university professor was fulfilling his employment requirements when he complained within university system about university’s use of grant funds
• teacher’s criticism of his superior’s use of grant funds provided to his department was speech as an employee, not a private citizen

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).