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Math Professor Fired After Refusing Woke Reeducation, So Judge Strips Crucial Protection from His Persecutors
thefederalistpapers.org ^ | March 20, 2022 | Warner Todd Huston

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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To: lowbridge

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.


21 posted on 03/20/2022 1:27:25 PM PDT by bhl
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To: rightwingcrazy

Your post reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode: The Obsolete Man”.

https://vimeo.com/313769282


22 posted on 03/20/2022 1:34:27 PM PDT by Whatever Works
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To: beethovenfan

oops


23 posted on 03/20/2022 1:36:15 PM PDT by gr8eman (When you're bought and paid for by commies...you're a commie!)
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To: usurper

I assume trump appointee. Thank God for master T


24 posted on 03/20/2022 1:44:38 PM PDT by genghis (Cathinkngact only reason go after puthan 5nu0 inbbiedComlpln)
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To: Republican Wildcat

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.


25 posted on 03/20/2022 1:45:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Depopulate the depopulationists. --FJB)
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To: LastDayz

Also milli, centi, deci, deca, and hecto. A fellow can pretty well fine-tune his aggressions.


26 posted on 03/20/2022 1:48:13 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: bhl

He called us a Republic! So refreshing to hear the proper term used.


27 posted on 03/20/2022 1:50:18 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: usurper

Insurance company lawyers are Noe recalculating their risk


28 posted on 03/20/2022 1:53:23 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: lowbridge

A victory! Yes!


29 posted on 03/20/2022 1:53:40 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: beethovenfan

And pico- and femto-aggressions? Not to mention the far more offensive mili- centi-, and deci-aggressions. Those are the really bad ones.


30 posted on 03/20/2022 2:02:41 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: usurper
Wow, some good news for a change.

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?

31 posted on 03/20/2022 2:04:23 PM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: lowbridge

Let the university be required to extend micro-protections


32 posted on 03/20/2022 2:06:48 PM PDT by daku
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To: lowbridge

Build gallows...
Permanently solve the communist infestation now ruling us...
The only good communists are dead communists...


33 posted on 03/20/2022 2:36:59 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: maddog55

“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.


34 posted on 03/20/2022 2:46:04 PM PDT by oldvirginian (When I was a kid I wanted to be older…this is not what I expected)
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To: lowbridge

Does this mean the school officials can be sued personally?


35 posted on 03/20/2022 2:48:05 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: libertylover

This is a publicly funded university. Am I correct that this is a state university?

A private sports league is not.


36 posted on 03/20/2022 2:51:26 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
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.

37 posted on 03/20/2022 2:52:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: maddog55

I believe a good chunk of the opinion is citations of precedent to support each aspect of the ruling.


38 posted on 03/20/2022 2:53:13 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: wintertime

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.


39 posted on 03/20/2022 2:57:43 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: lowbridge
Judge Strips Crucial Protection from His Persecutors

Burn them. The sooner we put a stop to this Nazi stuff the better off we will all be.

40 posted on 03/20/2022 3:06:44 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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