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Marquette Professor Wins 'Academic Freedom' Suit

Zac Schultz:

Turning to the courts, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a suspended Marquette professor. The court’s conservative majority ruled Marquette University violated Professor John McAdams academic freedom when it suspended him in 2014. McAdams was suspended for linking a grad student’s personal information in a blog post critical of their actions. The grad student received threatening emails after the post was published. Justice Daniel Kelly wrote in his opinion, “Suspending Dr. McAdams for publishing the blog post would, of course, impair his full and free enjoyment of academic freedoms.” McAdams will be fully reinstated with back pay as per the court’s order.