COWELL v. FULLER

No. 77-1278.

362 So.2d 124 (1978)

Fred COWELL, Executive Director, Dade County Public Health Trust, Appellant, v. Gloria FULLER, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied September 29, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart L. Simon, County Atty. and R.A. Cuevas, Jr., Asst. County Atty., for appellant.

Long & Smith and Harold Long, Jr., Miami, for appellee.

Before HUBBART and KEHOE, JJ., and CHARLES CARROLL (Ret.), Associate Judge.


HUBBART, Judge.

The central question involved in this appeal is whether the First Amendment to the United States Constitution precludes a governmental agency as an employer from disciplining one of its employees for making offensive, anti-semitic remarks on the job to a Jewish co-employee. We hold that no such constitutional prohibition exists under these circumstances and that a governmental agency as an employer may, in...

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