7th Circ. Judge Wary Of Ex-Firefighter's Free Speech Position
By Celeste Bott ( September 18, 2025, 8:16 PM EDT) -- A Seventh Circuit judge on Thursday said an attorney for a former Chicago firefighter seeking to revive a suit claiming he was unlawfully fired for a series of memes and other statements posted on Facebook seemed to be making a "hyperbolic" argument that public employers cannot regulate speech outside the workplace....
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