# Freitag v. California Department of Corrections

> Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · April 11, 2008 · 289 F. App'x 146

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8671571

## Case

- **Full name:** Deanna L. FREITAG, Plaintiff—Appellee v. CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, and Robert J. Ayers, Jr., Defendants—Appellants
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- **Decided:** April 11, 2008
- **Citations:** 289 F. App'x 146
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Noonan
- **Judges:** Noonan
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

NOONAN, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
As the Supreme Court acknowledged in its 5-4 decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos, 547 U.S. 410 , 126 S.Ct. 1951 , 164 L.Ed.2d 689 (2006), it has been difficult to differentiate between citizen speech and employee speech “that has some potential to affect the entity’s operation.” Difficult, delicate as the differentiation is, it seems to me that Freitag wrote Terhune as a professional prison employee.

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