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Does First Amendment bar public bodies from censuring members for critical speech? Supreme Court will decide
Image from Shutterstock.com. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday accepted a First Amendment case involving a college trustee who was censured after criticizing board actions and filing multiple lawsuits against the body. The high court agreed to decide whether the First Amendment restricts an elected body’s authority to censure a member for their speech. The court will rule in the case of community college trustee David Wilson, who was censured after he sparked “an increasingly chaotic series of events,” according to the cert petition filed by the Houston Community College System’s board of trustees. ....
The U.S. Supreme Court. (Courthouse News photo/Jack Rodgers) WASHINGTON (CN) What authority does a board of elected officials possess to censure its members? The issue will be front and center before the U.S. Supreme Court this year. On Monday, the nation’s high court accepted a petition from the Houston Community College System Board of Trustees outlining the body’s issues with David Wilson, a member of the board. After what the board’s brief outlined as “an increasingly chaotic series of events” set in motion by Wilson, members voted to censure his conduct. That conduct related to Wilson’s insatiable appetite for lawsuits, the other board members write. They say he filed multiple suits against the board he was elected to represent, leaking confidential information and encouraging others to join him in litigation. Wilson cost the board $300,000 between four lawsuits he filed by 2017. ....
ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT 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. ....