A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Bonneville International Corp. lawfully fired longtime Sacramento Kings announcer Grant Napear over a 2020 “All Lives Matter” tweet, upholding a lower court’s dismissal of his wrongful-termination lawsuit.
\n\nThe 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco sided with the broadcaster’s former employer. The decision ends, for now, a fight that began after Napear lost both his jobs in a single 48-hour stretch during the protests that followed George Floyd’s death.
\n\nFormer Kings star DeMarcus Cousins put the question to Napear on Twitter, now known as X. “What’s your take on BLM?” Napear, off work in May 2020 and watching the protest coverage, replied that he was glad to hear from Cousins. Then he wrote, “ALL LIVES MATTER … EVERY SINGLE ONE!!!”
\n\nBonneville employed Napear as a KTHK radio host and the Kings’ play-by-play announcer. The company suspended him the next day. It fired him the day after that.
\n\nNapear was a public figure, the panel noted, and his contract spelled out what that meant online. He had agreed to maintain “a high standard of care and level of responsibility” on social media. The reason, the contract states, was that his conduct could…
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