Robert O’Neil, former president and professor of law at the University of Virginia, and an expert on faculty free speech issues, said via email that although Thursday's decision involved a community college administrator, the non-academic nature of the speech in question didn't offer great support for faculty members who do not want Garcetti applied to their speech. But O'Neil said that professors should be pleased that -- in a unanimous decision -- the Supreme Court cited its Keyishian ruling, which in 1967 found that state education agencies could not bar the hiring of empl...