Question $15$

$2\mathrm{.}5pts$

Mitzi is about to graduate from UF and has just signed her first contract for employment with a private company, PPC$.$ Mitzi realizes that there is a clause in her contract, drafted by PPC$,$ that prohibits her from speaking about the trade secrets that PPC uses. Mitzi believes that this clause violates rights under the First Amendment. Therefore, Mitzi tells some of her friends at school about the company and the wording of the contract; however, she does not say anything else about PPC$,$ its customers, or what it does.

Mitzi does not know that her friend Juliet's father is the head of PPC$.$ Juliet tells her father about what Mitzi has said, and he immediatelyjires Mitzi. Would Mitzi have a case against PPC under the rights granted in the First Amendment?

Yes, because she did not give away any trade secrets $($which would be an exception to free speech$).$

No$,$ because Mitzi could only bring a case for abusive discharge, retaliation, or defamation; neither she nor PPC could ever have any First Amendment rights related to commercial matters.

Yes, as Mitzi has the right to do$,$ she was just criticizing the wording of her contract with PPC$.$

Yes, the First Amendment protects her from being terminated without first having a hearing before a neutral arbiter $($e$.$g$.,$ a judge$).$

No$,$ company policy prohibits speaking about the trade secrets$,$ and this is not protected by the First Amendment.

Question $16$