1. Whether this Court’s decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos bars claims under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment by public university professors related to speech undertaken as part of their official teaching duties. (Richard)

2. Whether a public university’s placement of the negative reasons for a professor’s termination in a private personnel record constitutes a deprivation of liberty under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, where that record is potentially accessible to the public under a state open records statute. (Katherine)