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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Wow, some good news for a change.
It would be just if what these people had planned for him were to happen to them, instead. That would include a loss of livelihood, and barriers to obtaining a new one.
Send the whole Administration to the Rooskies for a few years.
Good.
This "university" is not an institution of education and learning. It needs to be defunded.
This seems REALLY important. Glad to read it
What about those nanoaggressions?
bttt
University of North Texas had some great souvenir coffee mugs for sale a while back. They had the UNT logo prominently displayed, such that if one were to use the mug left-handed, the handle looked like a “C”. :P
Sean D. Jordan is a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. On January 17, 2019, President Donald Trump (R) nominated Jordan to a seat on this court. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jordan on July 30, 2019, on a vote of 54-34.[1] He received commission on August 20, 2019.[2]
What a surprise.
Don’t forget pico, nano, micro, kilo, mega, giga, and tera aggressions. Each of which can be aggressive in and of themselves.
69 page decision... When all that was needed was in one sentence in the first paragraph in the post.
Communist Univ of North Texas.
When it comes to Federal or Supreme Court decisions, the rulings only become “the law of the land” when they agree with liberal doctrines.
It’s about time the haters got a dose of their own castor oil!
Picoagressions...or 1 x 10^12?
Denton is a hotbed of commies. They were really hammering oil companies a while back on drilling anywhere near them. It’s like Austin lite.
1 x 10^(-12)
They're trying to make out like they're police officers enforcing the law.
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