Suicide by Blogging?

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Is this a first amendment issue?

No.

A) First amendment issues require a Government actor, private companies can fire you for speaking out against them without fear of Constitutional reprocussions (unless there's some kind of excessive entanglement between the gov't actor and the private entity, but I doubt the gov't is funding the Capital Grille).

B) There are often statutory provisions that will not allow this sort of firing, but they aren't even tenuously connected to the Constitution. So it's certainly not a 1st amendment issue but recourse is available in many of these instances under state law.

C) Missouri is an employment at will state, they can fire her for damn near any reason they want, including blogging negatively about them.

She's got nothing.