School Masking Critic Prevails In Appeal Of Lower Court Win For School, Employer

( October 30, 2025, 9:35 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — An Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel reversed a Minnesota federal court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of a bank, a bank officer, a school district and school district officials in a former bank employee’s lawsuit alleging retaliation against her for having spoken up about a school’s masking policy during the COVID-19 pandemic in violation of her free speech rights....