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92. Try to sort out what Garcetti v. Ceballos says before you wade into Lane v Franks

As far as I can tell, the issue in Garcetti v. Ceballos is something along the following lines: to what extent can an employer take into account, for purposes of employee evaluation, comments that an employee makes, as part of the employee's job responsibilities?

When certain speech is required, as part of an employee's job, the employer may naturally want to be able to take such speech into account when evaluating the employee's performance; the employee may naturally want to be able to express his/her own views freely in such circumstances. So the employer may want complete discretion to sanction an employee in absolutely any way whenever the employee's job-related speech does not suit the employer; while the employee may want complete discretion to say whatever he/she likes without fear of retaliation