Friday's Alabama Supreme Court decision in Flickinger v. King stemmed from a June 2020 Facebook post "apparently regarding the death of George Floyd" by Flickinger:
Things I think about: If I were a seven-time felon, with my most recent prison stint stemming from robbing and holding a pregnant woman at gunpoint in her home, would I choose to die in a fentanyl and methamphetamine numbed strangulation if it meant being worshipped in a nationwide funeral and my family receiving millions of dollars? Purely hypothetical.
King then got in touch with Flickinger's employer, Wainwright, Pope & McMeekin, P.C. (a law firm at which Flickinger had worked 11 years) about the post. The firm threatened to fire Flickinger unless he resigned, which he did. He then sued (among others) King, alleging that King "had shared a 'counterfeit' social-media profile that appeared to show that Flickinger was making a controversial political statement on behalf of WPM":
