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= **__HISTORY__** =
 * Connick v. Myers - 1980**


 * -**The respondent, Sheila Myers, was employed as an Assistant District Attorney in New Orleans for five and a half years. She served at the pleasure of petitioner Harry Connick, the District Attorney for Orleans Parish. During this period, Myers competently performed her responsibilities of trying criminal cases.

-Myers was informed that she would be transferred to a different the criminal court. Myers strongly opposed this transfer and expressed her feelings to her supervisors.

-Myers made the following questionnaire for her fellow staff members to fill out

-Connick discharged Myers for insubordination in distributing the questionnaire and for refusing her transfer.

-Myers filed suit contending that her employment was wrongfully terminated because she had exercised her constitutionally protected right of free speech.