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Rutherford County Schools fired a teacher for Facebook comments about slain conservative advocate Charlie Kirk , a First Amendment lawsuit contends.

Susannah O'Brien had been a teacher at the district's Roy Waldron Elementary School in La Vergne prior to filing her federal case Oct. 8 through Nashville attorneys Mark Downton and Frank Ross Brazil.

O'Brien, who has 25 year

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