Churchill In Court To Ask To Teach Again At CU
Jury Found Professor Wrongfully Terminated
POSTED: 5:14 am MDT July 1, 2009
UPDATED: 1:09 pm MDT July 1, 2009
DENVER, Colo. -- A Denver judge is hearing arguments on whether a former Colorado professor should get his job back after jurors concluded he was wrongly fired for likening Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi.The University of Colorado is opposing Ward Churchill's reinstatement request despite the jury verdict because school officials maintain he was fired for academic fraud.Churchill's attorneys argue the university trampled his rights of freedom of speech and fired him in retaliation for an essay in which he called World Trade Center victims "little Eichmanns," a reference to a Nazi who helped orchestrate the Holocaust.
Jurors sided with Churchill in April and awarded him $1 in damages and a chance for reinstatement.Click to read the Churchill Hearing Blog.
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Previous Stories:
- June 13, 2009: Churchill To Appear In HBO Documentary
- April 30, 2009: Churchill Hopes To Return To CU This Fall
- April 9, 2009: College President To Boycott Churchill Speech
- April 5, 2009: Juror: One Holdout Forced $1 Award For Churchill
- April 2, 2009: Ward Churchill Wins Civil Suit Against CU
- March 31, 2009: Churchill Trial Nears End
- March 25, 2009: CU Presents Case Against Churchill In Lawsuit
- March 24, 2009: Churchill Faults Media For Pressure To Fire Him
- March 24, 2009: Churchill Takes Stand In Civil Suit
- March 20, 2009: Churchill Critic Tears Into Professor
- March 18, 2009: Profs Debate Churchill Scholarship
- March 16, 2009: Head Of Churchill Committee May Have Been Biased
- March 13, 2009: Former CU President Details Pressure To Fire Professor
- March 12, 2009: Former CU President Defends Professor's Firing
- March 11, 2009: Former Governor Testifies In Ward Churchill Trial
- March 5, 2009: Ayers: Churchill Victim Of 'Witch Hunt'
- March 4, 2009: Students In Standoff With CU Over Ayers, Churchill Event
- January 13, 2009: CU Wants To Hire 'Professor Of Conservative Thought'
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