Members of Houston Community College's board of trustees didn't violate a former colleague's First Amendment rights by publicly censuring him for disagreeing with the college's funding of a campus in Qatar, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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High Court To Hear Houston Community College Censure Row
Law360 (April 26, 2021, 4:17 PM EDT) The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a First Amendment dispute between the Houston Community College System and a former member of its board of trustees, who says his rights were violated when he was censured for disagreeing with the college s funding of a campus in Qatar.
The case asks the high court to resolve a split among federal appellate courts as to whether the First Amendment limits a local government s censure power. HCC says the Fifth Circuit wrongly broke with five other appellate courts in April 2020 when it revived former board member David B. Wilson s claim that the.