A federal district court in Florida granted summary judgment to the City of Cape Coral Charter School Authority on the First Amendment retaliation claims of a member of the Authority’ s governing board and his wife, a teacher in its elementary schools, after they criticized the Authority’s practices during his term. The member claims the Authority forced him to resign, and then terminated his wife in retaliation for the comments he made to a superintendent and at board meetings. The court concluded the couple’s speech arose from their duties as a board member and an elementary school teacher, and that ...
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