Samuelson v. LaPorte Community School Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• community school corporation’s chain-of-command policy, which required staff members to consult supervisors on matters “requiring administrative attention” concerned speech grounded in teacher’s professional duties
• “For the restriction to qualify as a prior restraint, the employee must have an interest in the speech as a citizen commenting upon a matter of public concern.”
• “[B]efore applying [prior restraint] test to [public school’s guidelines] we first must determine whether that policy applies to speech that is protected by the First Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).