R.App. P. 28(j), cite Savage v. Gee, 665 F.3d 732 (6th Cir.2012), in which we applied Garcetti and affirmed the grant of summary judgment against the plaintiff, a former state-university librarian who claimed that he was constructively discharged in retaliation for his First Amendment speech. Observing that the plaintiffs speech commenting on a book recommendation was not related to classroom instruction and “only loosely, if at all, related to academic scholarship,” this court held that his speech was pursuant to his duties as head librarian and as a committee member selecting books for freshman students, and thus not protected under the First Amendment. Id. at 739. Savage relied on cases including Evans-Marshall v. Board of Education of Tipp City, 624 F.3d 332, 342-44 (6th Cir.2010) (<HOLDING>). B. Decisions of other Circuits applying
holding that the district was not liable under respondeat superior for a teachers sexual assault of a student even though it occurred on school grounds and during school hours because the criminal misconduct was not within the scope of the teachers employment holding that school officials may not limit the first amendment rights of students and teachers to freedom of speech and expression holding that the first amendment does not protect primary and secondary school teachers inclass curricular speech even to the extent academic freedom as a constitutional rule could somehow apply to primary and secondary schools that does not insulate a teachers curricular and pedagogical choices from the school boards oversight as opposed to the teachers right to speak and write publicly about academic issues outside of the classroom holding that a collective bargaining agreement between school board and teachers union established a teachers legitimate claim of entitlement to their positions at elementary school holding the school did not violate the teachers constitutional rights by prohibiting the teacher from reading the bible in class