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Mt. Healthy City Board of Education v. Doyle
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- At issue in Mt. Healthy City Board of Education v. Doyle (1977) was whether a school board could defend itself in a First Amendment retaliation claim by proving that it would have made the same employment decision in the absence of a teacher's allegedly protected free speech activity.Facts of the CaseThe dispute arose when a nontenured Ohio high school teacher, Doyle, sent a local radio station a copy of his principal's memo about a school dress code and included his own opinions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Education Law; Mt. Healthy City Board of Education v. Doyle]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Mt._Healthy_City_Board_of_Education_v._Doyle
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