TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 25, 2022

Former Sullivan County teacher Jeremy McLaughlin — suspended for three days without pay over posts he made on social media while off-duty — is set to become the first test case in Tennessee of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that granted First Amendment speech protection to the prayers of a Washington state high school football coach. McLaughlin claims that his expletive-laced posts about COVID and masking are also protected, Tennessee Lookout reports. The case is set for trial before U.S. District Judge Clifton Corker in September.