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To: alyse615
It probably is a great victory for free speech but we can't be sure because we don't know from the article what the facts are.


3 posted on 08/08/2008 8:14:40 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford

Just click on the external link to the FIRE website for the full article and a link to the opinion.


4 posted on 08/08/2008 8:20:19 AM PDT by BienHoa69-70 RVN
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To: nathanbedford
I had to google it. Here is a short blurb of the case from the Alliance Defense Fund.

ABOUT DeJohn v. Temple University Christian DeJohn, a graduate student at Temple University and a sergeant in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, was repeatedly thwarted by school officials in his attempt to earn a master’s degree in Military and American History after expressing his conservative political views. DeJohn had been deployed to Bosnia shortly after 9/11 and started to receive anti-war e-mails from members (defendants) of the Temple faculty. When DeJohn asked that he stop receiving the e-mails, the defendants allegedly engaged in a series of unlawful, retaliatory acts including:

 failing to grant him military leave guaranteed by federal and state law
 dismissing him from the school
 refusing to advise him during his thesis completion
 professionally denigrated him and his thesis
 rejecting his thesis without legitimate academic grounds
 delaying his graduation three times, causing him to default on student loans
 conspiring to deny him the same rights as other graduate students.

(http://www.telladf.org/UserDocs/DeJohnTempleFactSheet.pdf

5 posted on 08/08/2008 8:20:27 AM PDT by tsmith130
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