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Stern Rebuke: Auburn University Hit With Punitive Damages in Free Speech Case

JonathanTurley

In that case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of public high school teacher Marvin Pickering, who wrote a letter to the local newspaper criticizing a school board’s allocation of funding for athletic programs. He argued that academic integrity was being sacrificed for sports. 205 , 391 U.S. 563, 574 (1968).