Posted on 03/20/2022 12:40:13 PM PDT by lowbridge
The publicly funded University of North Texas was dealt a blow in court after a federal judge said school officials can be held responsible for firing employees for exercising their right of free speech.
In his 69-page order of March 11, Judge Sean Jordan, of the United States District Court for Eastern Texas, found that university officials should have known that math professor Nathaniel Hiers’ speech “touched on a matter of public concern and that discontinuing his employment because of his speech violated the First Amendment,” before they fired him for going public with his disagreement with the left-wing concept of “migroaggressions.”
The university was claiming qualified immunity for school officials in the case, meaning that the school wanted its officials to be excluded from being held responsible for their actions merely because they were acting in their position as state employees. Jordan denied the claim of qualified immunity and also denied the school’s demand to have the case dismissed outright.
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Fantastic judge appointment by Trump.
“Compelled speech is deeply suspect in the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence” because it “diminishes autonomy, stymies the search for truth, and extinguishes the debates necessary for the continuous improvement of our Republic,” Judge Jordan wrote.
oops
I assume trump appointee. Thank God for master T
This may be the first time in their lives they were held personally responsible for anything.
Being “educators,” they should look upon it as a learning experience.
Also milli, centi, deci, deca, and hecto. A fellow can pretty well fine-tune his aggressions.
He called us a Republic! So refreshing to hear the proper term used.
Insurance company lawyers are Noe recalculating their risk
A victory! Yes!
And pico- and femto-aggressions? Not to mention the far more offensive mili- centi-, and deci-aggressions. Those are the really bad ones.
Is it? If a MLB team expects its players to be respectful of veterans and other patriots by standing for the National Anthem, can the player sue the team for damages if they fire him for it?
Let the university be required to extend micro-protections
Build gallows...
Permanently solve the communist infestation now ruling us...
The only good communists are dead communists...
“69 page decision... When all that was needed was in one sentence in the first paragraph in the post.”
It probably took that to properly cross the T’s and for the i’s. Can’t leave any wiggle room. Judge must have wanted his decision to be final.
Does this mean the school officials can be sued personally?
This is a publicly funded university. Am I correct that this is a state university?
A private sports league is not.
The publicly funded University of North Texas was dealt a blow in court after a federal judge said school officials can be held responsible for firing employees for exercising their right of free speech.
I believe a good chunk of the opinion is citations of precedent to support each aspect of the ruling.
Yes, they don’t get qualified immunity because they should have known they could not fire an instructor because of his speech on a matter of public concern.
Burn them. The sooner we put a stop to this Nazi stuff the better off we will all be.
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