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HENNESSY v. CITY OF MELROSE

No. 98-2011.

194 F.3d 237 (1999)

Robert J. HENNESSY, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. CITY OF MELROSE, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 22, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Monahan for appellant.

Regina M. Gilgun, with whom Douglas I. Louison and Merrick, Louison & Costello were on brief, for municipal appellees.

Salvatore M. Giorlandino, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General of Massachusetts, was on brief, for remaining appellees.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal implicates the delicate balance between the need of educational institutions to have a relatively unfettered hand in order to perform their core mission effectively and the rights of teachers (and aspiring teachers) freely to express themselves. On particular facts, the district court reconciled that balance against plaintiff-appellant Robert J. Hennessy. At the same time, the court rejected several other claims that Hennessy had...

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