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Garcetti v. Ceballos

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Limited by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
547 U.S. 410
Decided
Confirmed treatments
2
Flagged citations read
71 of 73
Citing cases (total)
2,870
Treatment dates
2011–2013
Limited by some courts
At least one reviewed court has limited this case’s holding to narrower facts or a narrower rule. No reviewed court has overruled it. Garcetti v. Ceballos is still in review. 71 of the 73 flagged citations were read, and the two confirmed treatments are listed below; the text of the other two could not be retrieved, so they remain unread.
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The Fourth Circuit declined to extend Garcetti to public-university academic speech, and the Northern District of Illinois declined to extend it to classroom instruction; both issues were expressly reserved in Garcetti. Other readable opinions applied its official-duties rule, reported its effect on earlier cases, or recounted arguments the court did not adopt. Because those opinions are unread, the review is not complete enough to call the case good law.

The treatments below are confirmed; unread citations could still change the overall status.
Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case, except the ones whose text could not be retrieved.

2,870 later cases cite Garcetti v. Ceballos; 73 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading; 71 of them have been read, and the text of 2 citing opinions could not be retrieved, so those remain unread. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

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  • The court declined to extend Garcetti's official-duties rule to a public university professor's academic speech, a question Garcetti had reserved.

    Adams v. Trustees of the University of North Carolina-Wilmington · Fourth Circuit · filed

    We are also persuaded that Garcetti would not apply in the academic context of a public university as represented by the facts of this case.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

  • The court declined to apply Garcetti's official-duties rule to classroom instruction and allowed a teacher's First Amendment claim to proceed under existing academic-freedom precedent.

    Brown v. Chicago Board of Education · N.D. Ill. · filed

    This brings us to the possible exception to Garcetti: the Supreme Court explicitly stated that the opinion did not try to answer whether “classroom instruction,” delivered pursuant to job duties, falls outside First Amendment protection. ... Because the Supreme Court has not decided these questions, Seventh Circuit (and of course Supreme Court) decisions on academic freedom remain in place and binding on this Court — even though Garcetti casts doubt on the availability of First Amendment protection for teacher speech (including classroom instruction) made pursuant to job duties.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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